Eino Ruutsalo
Born: 1921-09-19 in Kymi, Finland
Died: 2001-04-02
Known For: Directing
Biography
Eino Ruutsalo (1921-2001) made mostly documentaries and animated films, in the latter genre he was influenced by Norman McLaren and Stan Brakhage with the idea of painting and scratching directly on the emulsion and then adding a jazz accompaniment to his kinetic images. Ruutsalo had been a fighter pilot during the Second World War and had studied the very au courant Abstract Expressionism after the war in both his own country of Finland and in the United States of America.
Filmography
1991
- Kinescope ... (Director)
1982
- Havis Amanda: The Beauty of Helsinki ... (Director)
1972
- Alvar Aalto: A Finnish Architect ... (Producer)
1969
- Is This the World of Teddy? ... (Director)
1968
- Food ... (Director)
1967
- Plus Minus ... (Director)
1966
- Human Signs ... (Director)
1965
- Laituri ... (Producer)
- Two Chickens ... (Director)
- The Junk Artist ... (Director)
- The Jump ... (Director)
1964
- Les Siffleurs ... (Director)
1963
- Blue-Eyed Helsinki ... (Director)
1962
- Tuulinen päivä ... (Writer)
- Kinetic Pictures ... (Writer)
1961
- Hetkiä yössä ... (Producer)
- Don Quijote ... (Director)
1959
- Talking Hands ... (Director)