Marjut Rimminen

Directing

Marjut Rimminen

Born

1944-07-04 (82)

Place of birth

Helsinki, Finland

Known for

Directing

Credits

18 titles

Marjut Rimminen is a Finnish-born animator and film director who has lived and worked in London since 1974. Her short films take their subjects from life, and often difficult ones: the lives of women and girls, how childhood shapes adulthood, the silences of family life, and the aftermath of war in ordinary homes. She handles them with lightness, play and dark humour. She works in drawn cel, puppets, clay, collage, pixilation, live action, 3D and digital compositing, and often combines several in one frame. The Stain (1991), made with Christine Roche, is a dark domestic fable of incest and family secrets; it won special jury prizes at Hiroshima and San Francisco in 1992. Many Happy Returns …

Known for

Red Ribbon poster
NR

Two adults balance their sexual behavior on a tightrope with the threat of AIDS/HIV. They receive support from the Red Ribbon, the symbol of the global AIDS/HIV aid organization. They learn to adjust their movements and eventually feel safe.

Red Ribbon

2001

Some Protection poster
NR

Fourth film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. Based on the real life experiences of Josie O Dwyer, the film uses her voice as commentary, taken from hours of taped conversation with the filmmaker. Different styles of drawing convey her emotions and the devastating effects detention and imprisonment have on young girls put away 'for their own protection'.

Some Protection

1987

The Stain poster
8.5

In a house on a cliff by the sea, a man and a woman live together and eventually have children. When the mother disappears and the father goes for a swim in the sea, the baby is left to be raised by the twin brothers and the cruel, older sister. When they grow up secrets can only be kept for so long.

The Stain

1991

The Frog King poster
NR

A personal interpretation of the Brothers Grimm tale of the Frog King, made for the Kellogg's Magic Mirror animated fairytale competition, of which it was one of the winners. Script by Simon Bent, voices by Denise Bryer and Peter Hawkins; produced by Ragdoll Productions for the Kellogg Company.

The Frog King

1989

Learned by Heart poster
NR

Marjut Rimminen's and Päivi Takala's animated film sheds light on childhood in post-war Finland. In it, an animated and documentary film combined with a rich sound expression create a multifaceted story.

Learned by Heart

2007

I'm Not a Feminist, but... poster
NR

A series of humorous skits illustrating the experience of women in a male-dominated world.

I'm Not a Feminist, but...

1986

Film credits

Behind the camera

Red Ribbon poster
NR

Two adults balance their sexual behavior on a tightrope with the threat of AIDS/HIV. They receive support from the Red Ribbon, the symbol of the global AIDS/HIV aid organization. They learn to adjust their movements and eventually feel safe.

Red Ribbon

2001

Red Ribbon poster
NR

Two adults balance their sexual behavior on a tightrope with the threat of AIDS/HIV. They receive support from the Red Ribbon, the symbol of the global AIDS/HIV aid organization. They learn to adjust their movements and eventually feel safe.

Red Ribbon

2001

Some Protection poster
NR

Fourth film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. Based on the real life experiences of Josie O Dwyer, the film uses her voice as commentary, taken from hours of taped conversation with the filmmaker. Different styles of drawing convey her emotions and the devastating effects detention and imprisonment have on young girls put away 'for their own protection'.

Some Protection

1987

Some Protection poster
NR

Fourth film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. Based on the real life experiences of Josie O Dwyer, the film uses her voice as commentary, taken from hours of taped conversation with the filmmaker. Different styles of drawing convey her emotions and the devastating effects detention and imprisonment have on young girls put away 'for their own protection'.

Some Protection

1987

The Stain poster
8.5

In a house on a cliff by the sea, a man and a woman live together and eventually have children. When the mother disappears and the father goes for a swim in the sea, the baby is left to be raised by the twin brothers and the cruel, older sister. When they grow up secrets can only be kept for so long.

The Stain

1991

The Frog King poster
NR

A personal interpretation of the Brothers Grimm tale of the Frog King, made for the Kellogg's Magic Mirror animated fairytale competition, of which it was one of the winners. Script by Simon Bent, voices by Denise Bryer and Peter Hawkins; produced by Ragdoll Productions for the Kellogg Company.

The Frog King

1989

Learned by Heart poster
NR

Marjut Rimminen's and Päivi Takala's animated film sheds light on childhood in post-war Finland. In it, an animated and documentary film combined with a rich sound expression create a multifaceted story.

Learned by Heart

2007

Learned by Heart poster
NR

Marjut Rimminen's and Päivi Takala's animated film sheds light on childhood in post-war Finland. In it, an animated and documentary film combined with a rich sound expression create a multifaceted story.

Learned by Heart

2007

I'm Not a Feminist, but... poster
NR

A series of humorous skits illustrating the experience of women in a male-dominated world.

I'm Not a Feminist, but...

1986

I'm Not a Feminist, but... poster
NR

A series of humorous skits illustrating the experience of women in a male-dominated world.

I'm Not a Feminist, but...

1986

Many Happy Returns poster
6.0

Mixed live-action and paper maché puppet animation. The disjointed debris of our childhood state still lurking within our adult consciousness act as a painful, disruptive force. A ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman’s consciousness, demanding attention, recalling a traumatic childhood event and thus distorting the woman’s experience of the present.

Many Happy Returns

1997

The Bridge poster
NR

A human-political satire about war and peace, optimism and pessimism. A struggle between despair and faith in life, in which neither wins, but life goes on.

The Bridge

1982

The Bridge poster
NR

A human-political satire about war and peace, optimism and pessimism. A struggle between despair and faith in life, in which neither wins, but life goes on.

The Bridge

1982

Trip to Eternity poster
NR

An actor is prepared for the final shot in this pastiche of filmmaking: a two-minute macabre comedy sketch made by a sister and brother, Marjut and Sakari Rimminen, who share every credit on the film.

Trip to Eternity

1973

Trip to Eternity poster
NR

An actor is prepared for the final shot in this pastiche of filmmaking: a two-minute macabre comedy sketch made by a sister and brother, Marjut and Sakari Rimminen, who share every credit on the film.

Trip to Eternity

1973

Trip to Eternity poster
NR

An actor is prepared for the final shot in this pastiche of filmmaking: a two-minute macabre comedy sketch made by a sister and brother, Marjut and Sakari Rimminen, who share every credit on the film.

Trip to Eternity

1973