Fast Eddy vanad uudised

Ed Vaar (1929 Kuressaare, Estonia – 2014 Toronto, Canada), a freelance cameraman who earned his nickname Fast Eddy by often arriving at the scene of an accident before the police and CBC’s crime reporters. A lot of his material was used on the TV by CBC. The rest – hundreds of hours’ worth of tape that he didn’t manage to sell – is piled up in the rooms and the cellar at Eddy’s penthouse in central Toronto. Can you sell old news? What does Ed remember and what do his old film reels say about his interests? When do one’s own preparations for death come to an end and when do you change into a ward, a potted plant, a piece of furniture? How does the end come for a person who has recorded the deaths and destruction of so many others for the infotainment industry? (Estonian Film Institute)