Mixed Feelings

Name: Mixed Feelings
Director: Marjut Rimminen
Released: 1998

1998 · Television series · BetaSP · 4 × 3 minutes

Episodes "Virginia" and "Anita", directed by Marjut Rimminen and Gillian Lacey

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.

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: Marjut Rimminen
Producer: Marilyn Milgrom
Production: An APT production for Channel 4
Distribution: Channel Four International

Writing about the work

Marjut Rimminen: Giannalberto Bendazzi, Animation: A World History, Volume III: Contemporary Times 2016, CRC Press: a biographical paragraph in the chapter on Great Britain (pages 71 to 72), from the 1968 graduation and Vivante's Zagreb award through Halas and Batchelor, the commercials for Finland, The Stain, Urpo & Turpo, Many Happy Returns, Mixed Feelings and Red Ribbon to Learned by Heart, with a still from it; and a passage in the Finland chapter (page 135): Learned by Heart "x-rays the country's history through the eyes of a child"
Some Protection, The Stain, Many Happy Returns, Mixed Feelings: Clare Kitson, British Animation: The Channel 4 Factor 2008, Parliament Hill Books, the history of the channel's animation commissioning: of the Blind Justice series, "the final film, Some Protection by Marjut Rimminen, would attract the most accolades"; The Stain was "brought to the channel by two of the Blind Justice team"; Mixed Feelings and the credits of Many Happy Returns; a photograph of Marjut at Fantoche with its Grand Prix (page 165)

Get in touch

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

marjut.rimminen@gmail.com