Marjut Rimminen

Short films

Mixed Feelings

1997 · Television series · BetaSP · 4 × 3 minutes

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.

Still from Mixed Feelings, a stone angel statue overgrown with green ivy, its figure dissolving into the leaves Still from Mixed Feelings, a laughing woman in glasses seen through blurred red, orange and yellow lights Still from Mixed Feelings, a woman in a sleeveless top reclining against a painted blue and white sky and leaves, with a small drawn figure at lower right Still from Mixed Feelings, a small girl in a red patterned dress standing in green grass streaked with motion

Credits

Researcher
Rachel Bailey
Production manager
Nicolette Howard
Camera
Terry Flaxton
Sound
Jonathan Enkel
Dubbing mixer
George Foulgham
Composers
Sue Herrod, Mieko Shimizu
Digital compositing
Timo Arnall, Marjut Rimminen
Editing
Tamara MacLachlan
Direction
Gillian Lacey, Marjut Rimminen
Producer
Marilyn Milgrom
Production
An APT production for Channel 4
Distribution
Channel Four International

Screenings and broadcasts

  • Transmitted on Channel 4 in 1997 as a series of four documentaries
  • At Filmfest Dresden, 1998
  • At Feminale Köln, Cologne, 1998
  • In the Digital New Wave programme at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1999
  • In A Caring Eye: The Documentary Way, introduced by Clare Kitson at the Bradford Animation Festival, 9 to 13 November 2010
  • At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2026

Writing about the work

Get in touch

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

marjut.rimminen@gmail.com