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The House Guard is a double portrait – of the Tallinn Linnahall concert and sports venue and its caretaker Peter, who are both bound by seclusion. It tells the story of the decline of a legendary building through one man`s eyes, and the personal story of a man against the backdrop of a vanishing building. It is a dialogue between the two.

Ingel Vaikla (1992) is a photographer and filmmaker. In her work she mostly questions the relation between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in camera based mediums. Ingel was part of the team representing Estonia at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale with a contribution titled `How Long is the Life of a Building?`. Her film “The House Guard” (2015) has been screened on Estonian national television and on several international film festivals in Europe. Right now she is studying in film Masters in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent. She writes for design and architecture magazine Idee and organises film screenings for the International Interior Architecture Symposium SISU.