Marjut Rimminen

Short films

I'm not a Feminist, but…

1986 · Short film · 35mm · 7 minutes

Adapted from the cartoons and drawings of Christine Roche

Still from I'm not a Feminist, but… A woman in a blue polka-dot dress reading a letter in an armchair, a man's legs on the floor beside her

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.

Rimminen's feminism has a playful and ironic element to it; her films show just how possible it is to combine critical cinema and entertainment.

Ulrich Wegenast, Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart retrospective, April 1998

Credits

Animation
Marjut Rimminen
Additional animation
Jeff Goldner, Spud Houston
Tracing
Gail Pearce, Christine Dawe, Russel Murch, Christine Roche
Painting
Debra Thaine, Denise Hambry, Stoney Parsons, Chris Rayment, Tessa Sheridan
Rostrum camera
Cartoon Camera Co, Wolff Productions, Begonia Tamarit
Editing and sound
Charlotte Evans
Voices
Glynis Brooks, David Tate, Anita West
Music
Composed and performed by Dick Heckstall-Smith and Dave Moore. Sung by Lorna Rowe and Tracy King.
Director
Marjut Rimminen
Producer
Dick Arnall
Production
A Marjut Rimminen Animation production in association with Channel Four Television

Writing about the work

  • I'm not a Feminist, but…, Some Protection, The Stain: Jayne Pilling (ed.), Women and Animation: A Compendium 1992, British Film Institute. A three-page profile (pages 37 to 40) on the making of I'm not a Feminist, but… with Christine Roche, on Some Protection, and on The Stain, of which Pilling writes: "it's rare to meet someone who's seen The Stain who hasn't been, quite simply, knocked out by it"; plus a filmography entry. The source of several quotations on this site
  • I'm not a Feminist, but…, Some Protection: Roger Noake, Animation Techniques: Planning and Producing Animation with Today's Technologies 1988: stills from I'm not a Feminist, but… opposite Christine Roche's drawings, with a note on how Rimminen simplified them for animation (pages 22 to 23), and Some Protection as the example in the chapter on sound and image (48 to 49)
  • I'm not a Feminist, but…, Blind Justice: Doris V. Sutherland, Women in British Animation: A Short Introduction 2016, Women Write About Comics: Rimminen and Roche as the talents behind the film and as contributors to the series

Get in touch

For festival and screening enquiries, teaching, masterclasses, or correspondence:

marjut.rimminen@gmail.com