# Learned by Heart / Sydämeen kätketty > 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. This is the Markdown rendering of [https://marjutrimminen.com/films/learned-by-heart/](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/learned-by-heart/), generated from the page itself. It carries the same words in the same order, with every image reduced to its description. The short map for machines is at [https://marjutrimminen.com/llms.txt](https://marjutrimminen.com/llms.txt). This page in Finnish is at [https://marjutrimminen.com/fi/lyhytelokuvat/learned-by-heart/](https://marjutrimminen.com/fi/lyhytelokuvat/learned-by-heart/). # Learned by Heart / Sydämeen kätketty 2007 · Animated documentary · 29 minutes A film by Marjut Rimminen and Päivi Takala Video: [Learned by Heart on Vimeo](https://player.vimeo.com/video/398306915?dnt=1&byline=0&portrait=0&title=0) Password: Marjut. The film contains material with rights restrictions. ![Still from Learned by Heart, vintage wedding photograph](https://marjutrimminen.com/images/learned-by-heart/learned-by-heart-2007-vintage-wedding-photograph.jpg) 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. ![Still from Learned by Heart, anti-Vietnam protest](https://marjutrimminen.com/images/learned-by-heart/learned-by-heart-2007-anti-vietnam-protest.jpg) > A charged and deeply personal creative collaboration with composer and co-director Päivi Takala that steps unflinchingly into the charged territory of generational relations, historical amnesia and the secret agendas of the human heart. > > – Mark Webber, Secret Cinema, March 2007 ![Still from Learned by Heart, figure walking in snow with handwritten text](https://marjutrimminen.com/images/learned-by-heart/learned-by-heart-2007-figure-walking-in-snow-handwriting.jpg) ![A drawn woman in a pink hat leans on the railing of a long photographed pier.](https://marjutrimminen.com/images/learned-by-heart/learned-by-heart-2007-drawn-woman-seaside-pier.jpg) - **International Premiere**, 2007 [IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam](https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/739ccabe-1263-4a44-83be-e32aa78ca5c4/learned-by-heart) Credits - Screenplay: Marjut Rimminen, Päivi Takala - Direction: Marjut Rimminen, Päivi Takala - Cinematography: Marjut Rimminen, Kari Sohlberg - Editing: Tony Fish - Sound: Patrick Boullenger, Päivi Takala - Music: Päivi Takala - Producer: Anna-Kaisa Sukura for Soundsgood Productions Oy - Executive producer: Päivi Takala for Soundsgood Productions Oy - Broadcast: YLE ## Screenings and broadcasts - At [Animateka](https://www.kinodvor.org/film/fokus-na-finsko-v-sodobni-finski-kratki-igrani-dokumentarni-in-eksperimentalni-film-1/), Kinodvor, Ljubljana, 7 to 13 December 2009, in the Finnish focus programme ## Retrospectives - **[Secret Cinema](https://www.markwebber.org.uk/2007/03/learned-by-heart.html)** 13 March 2007, Curzon Soho, London: Learned by Heart, [Many Happy Returns](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/many-happy-returns/) and [Some Protection](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/some-protection/), followed by a conversation with Gareth Evans; organised by animate! and the Finnish Institute - **[Tricky Women](https://www.trickywomen.at/)** 2008, personale at Topkino, Vienna: [Vivante](https://marjutrimminen.com/commercials/vivante/), [Absolut Marjut Rimminen](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/absolut-marjut-rimminen/), [Unicef AIDS Red Ribbon](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/unicef-aids-red-ribbon/), [Some Protection](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/some-protection/), [The Stain](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/the-stain/), [Many Happy Returns](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/many-happy-returns/) and Learned by Heart ## Writing about the work - **Learned by Heart, [Some Protection](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/some-protection/)**: Annabelle Honess Roe, [Animated Documentary](https://books.google.com/books?id=NAmVy_4xZ58C&pg=PA150) 2013, Palgrave Macmillan. Learned by Heart is a case study of the chapter Animated Memories (pages 146 to 150 and 154 to 155): the film "disrupts any simple understanding of its superficially nostalgic aesthetic as reactionary or sentimental", and the afterword returns to how "Rimminen reconciles her childhood with the social evolution of Finland" (169). Some Protection is placed in the Blind Justice series ([page 13](https://books.google.com/books?id=NAmVy_4xZ58C&pg=PA13)); Marjut is among the filmmakers the book thanks for interviews - **Learned by Heart**: Paul Wells, Never Mind the Bollackers: Here's the Repositories, Sites and Archives in Nonfiction Animation, in Jonathan Murray and Nea Ehrlich (eds), [Drawn from Life: Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema](https://books.google.com/books?id=4nUxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT164) 2018, Edinburgh University Press, pages 114 to 116, drawing on Wells's own 2007 interview with Marjut: the film is "an exploration of post-Second World War Finland seen through the perception of a young girl, but also the specific form of perception in the moment as it is later remembered", and "even more sophisticated in this respect. The film falls, however, between disciplinary stools in a way that dictates only a partial recognition of its achievements" - **Marjut Rimminen**: Giannalberto Bendazzi, [Animation: A World History, Volume III: Contemporary Times](https://books.google.com/books?id=BpvhCgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT86) 2016, CRC Press: a biographical paragraph in the chapter on Great Britain (pages 71 to 72), from the 1968 graduation and [Vivante](https://marjutrimminen.com/commercials/vivante/)'s Zagreb award through Halas and Batchelor, the commercials for Finland, [The Stain](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/the-stain/), [Urpo & Turpo](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/urpo-and-turpo/), [Many Happy Returns](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/many-happy-returns/), [Mixed Feelings](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/mixed-feelings/) and [Red Ribbon](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/unicef-aids-red-ribbon/) to Learned by Heart, with a still from it; and a passage in the Finland chapter ([page 135](https://books.google.com/books?id=BpvhCgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT221)): Learned by Heart "x-rays the country's history through the eyes of a child" - **[The Stain](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/the-stain/), Learned by Heart**: Meghan Annette Gilbride, [Memory Migrations: Bringing the Past to Life in Contemporary Animated Film](https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1532856/) 2012, PhD thesis, University College London: both films in the corpus of animated non-fiction of personal remembrance - **Learned by Heart**: Bella Honess Roe, [Animated Memories](https://blog.animationstudies.org/animated-memories/) 2013, Animation Studies 2.0, Society for Animation Studies: the film as an animated documentary that recalls the past - [The Stain](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/the-stain/) - [Some Protection](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/some-protection/) ## Get in touch For festival and screening enquiries, teaching, masterclasses, or correspondence: [marjut.rimminen@gmail.com](mailto:marjut.rimminen@gmail.com)