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Mait Mäekivi

Mait Mäekivi

Mait Mäekivi

1959-01-08

Kohtla-Järve, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Age: 66

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Biography

Mait Mäekivi (born on January 8, 1959 in Kohtla-Järve) is an Estonian cinematographer. 1982-1988 he studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. 1986-1991 he worked at Tallinnfilm. From 1991 he is a freelance cinematographer. In 2007 he was awarded with Order of the White Star, V class.

Best known for:

Firebird

November

Foreign Fields

I Was Here

Mindless

Shop of Dreams

Red Mercury

The Ideal Landscape

Made in Estonia

Golden Beach

Awakening

Where Souls Go

The Gang

Taarka

The Wish Tree

Farts of Fury

Robbie Williams: Live In Tallinn

Self Made Cameraman

The Smacking Sea

I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here

Old Men's Paradise

Windward Land

Two

Surmatants

The Sunny Kids

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Filmography:

The Ideal Landscape (1981)
WORK AS:
Assistant Camera
The Smacking Sea (1981)
WORK AS:
Assistant Camera
The Gang (1986)
WORK AS:
Assistant Camera
Two (1987)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography, Screenplay
I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here (1989)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Awakening (1990)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Surmatants (1991)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
The Sunny Kids (1992)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography

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Luukas (1992)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Standing by the Forest (1998)
WORK AS:
Camera Operator
Happy Landing (1999)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye (1999)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Foreign Fields (2000)
WORK AS:
Still Photographer
Made in Estonia (2003)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Shop of Dreams (2005)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Old Men's Paradise (2005)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography

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Mindless (2006)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Golden Beach (2006)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Where Souls Go (2007)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Whatever, Aleksander! (2007)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Windward Land (2008)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
I Was Here (2008)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Taarka (2008)
WORK AS:
Still Photographer
Red Mercury (2010)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
ENSV (2010)
WORK AS:
Camera Operator
Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys (2010)
WORK AS:
Camera Operator
Silent Surrender (2010)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Farts of Fury (2011)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Robbie Williams: Live In Tallinn (2014)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
November (2017)
5.8
WORK AS:
"B" Camera Operator, Second Unit Director of Photography
EnsV (2019)
WORK AS:
Camera Operator
Self Made Cameraman (2019)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Firebird (2021)
6.1
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
The Best of Salieri (2021)
WORK AS:
Camera Operator
Hermaküla: Lost Father (2022)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Fathers and Sons (2022)
WORK AS:
Cinematography
The First Capitalist of the USSR (2022)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
The Legend of Pitka (2023)
WORK AS:
Camera Operator
Artists of Survival (2024)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Galina (2024)
WORK AS:
Camera Operator
One-Dimensional Man (2025)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography