Eino Ruutsalo

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.

Directed

1. Tuulinen päivä (1962) — Director
2. Two Chickens (1965) — Director
3. Laituri (1965) — Director
4. Plus Minus (1967) — Director
5. Hetkiä yössä (1961) — Director
6. The Jump (1965) — Director
7. Les Siffleurs (1964) — Director
8. Havis Amanda: The Beauty of Helsinki (1982) — Director
9. Kinetic Pictures (1962) — Director
10. Don Quijote (1961) — Director
11. The Junk Artist (1965) — Director
12. Human Signs (1966) — Director
13. Talking Hands (1959) — Director
14. Blue-Eyed Helsinki (1963) — Director
15. The Eagle — Director
16. Alvar Aalto: A Finnish Architect (1972) — Director
17. Is This the World of Teddy? (1969) — Director
18. Kinescope (1991) — Director
19. Food (1968) — Director