Arvo Iho | |
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Born | Rakvere, Estonia | 21 June 1949
Occupation(s) | Film director, cinematographer |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Arvo Iho (born 21 June 1949) is an Estonian film director, cinematographer, actor and photographer, who has worked in the areas of documentary and drama. [1]
Iho was born in Rakvere, and he is of Ingrian Finnish descent. [2] He worked as a photographer and assistant for Tallinnfilm before studying cinematography at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. [1] Iho acted as assistant director to Andrei Tarkovsky on the 1979 film Stalker . [1] [3] He went on to work as a cameraman for Tallinnfilm in the 1980s. [1]
In 1985, Iho co-directed the feature film Games for School–Age Children with Leida Laius, also acting as director of cinematography, and in 1987 made his solo directorial debut with The Birdwatcher , about the relationship between a poacher and an ornithologist. [1] [4] [5] He followed this with Only for the Insane (1990). [1] In 2001 he made The Heart of the Bear , based on the Nikolai Baturin novel, and in 2006 made Gooseberries. [1]
As a photographer, Iho has exhibited nationally and internationally. [1] [3] [6]
As of 2017, Iho was a professor at Tallinn University's Baltic Film and Media School. [3]