Marjut Rimminen

Directing · Writing · As actor

Marjut Rimminen is a Finnish-born animator and film director who has lived and worked in London since 1974. Her short films take their subjects from life, and often difficult ones: the lives of women and girls, how childhood shapes adulthood, the silences of family life, and the aftermath of war in ordinary homes. She handles them with lightness, play and dark humour. She works in drawn cel, puppets, clay, collage, pixilation, live action, 3D and digital compositing, and often combines several in one frame.

The Stain (1991), made with Christine Roche, is a dark domestic fable of incest and fa…