Movies: Marjut Rimminen

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link...

The hero now looks a bit like one of those stick figures by Giacometti....

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...

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, deman...

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

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....

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....

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....

Made as one of a four part series exploring different aspects of women and the law, on which all the women animators involved researched and worked as a group, before then making individual films, each quite different in content, tone and style. Base...