Marjut is a master of short-form storytelling. Her subjects are taken from life: childhood and memory, the family, the law and the lives of women. She works in mixed media, moving between drawn cel, puppets, pixilation, live action and the computer, often within a single frame, and choosing each for what it can make the viewer feel.
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 her experience of the present.
A film by Marjut Rimminen and Christine Roche
Triggered by an actual news item about suicidal octogenarian twins, The Stain is a dark, domestic thriller which uses drawn, puppet, pixilation and live-action animation styles to spin a claustrophobic web of incest and intrigue.
A film by Marjut Rimminen and Päivi Takala
Finland emerged from the Second World War in a schizophrenic state, having survived two wars against the Soviet Union with her independence intact, but having officially come out on the losing side. The film explores post-war adjustment in five episodes, examining how fathers struggled with civilian life after combat while mothers took control of household organisation.
Part of Blind Justice, a four-part Channel 4 series on women and the law
An animated documentary based on the true story of Josie O’Dwyer, with her own voice as personal commentary. The film shows the devastating effect that detention and imprisonment have on young girls who are sent in “for their own protection”.
Animated television series directed by Liisa Helminen, based on Hannele Huovi’s books; Marjut Rimminen directed the six episodes of 1996
A Finnish stop-motion animated television series for children, based on Hannele Huovi’s books. Teddy bears Urpo and Turpo live on a bookshelf in the children’s room and are voracious readers, particularly of the classics.
Adapted from the cartoons and drawings of Christine Roche
Watch out: if you insist on saying “I’m not a Feminist, but…”, then you may well find yourself pushing the old man over the edge or behind the sofa, as the case may be.
A film by Marjut and Sakari Rimminen
An actor is prepared for the final shot in this pastiche of filmmaking. A macabre comedy sketch by sister and brother.
A man and a woman engage in a desperate battle between gloom and hope.
Marjut’s interpretation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. After the frog retrieves her golden ball from the pond, the princess fails to keep her promise to be his best friend, share her plate and let him sleep in her bed.
Part of the Absolut Panushka Experimental Animation Website. Twenty-four animators were each asked to interpret the classic Absolut bottle silhouette in their own distinctive styles, ten seconds each. The first website on the Internet to exhibit experimental animation. Absolut Marjut Rimminen is an edited compilation of all the experiments she made for it.
Series directed by Gillian Lacey and Marjut Rimminen; episodes “Virginia” and “Anita” directed by Marjut Rimminen
A series of four programmes for Channel 4’s Whose Choice? season, commemorating thirty years since the change of the abortion law in England. Virginia’s and Anita’s stories are the first two of four personal accounts of different experiences of abortion.
Young adults on a tightrope, balancing their sexual activity with the threat of AIDS / HIV. In Marjut’s words: “Be sure that you are safe when in love.”
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