Eino Ruutsalo
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 19, 1921
- Place of birth
- Kymi, Finland
- Died
- April 2, 2001
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.
Movies directed by Eino Ruutsalo
- Tuulinen päivä 1962 · ★ 6.0
- Two Chickens 1965 · ★ 4.0
- Laituri 1965 · ★ 3.7
- Plus Minus 1967 · ★ 6.0
- Hetkiä yössä 1961 · ★ 7.2
- The Jump 1965 · ★ 6.0
- Les Siffleurs 1964 · ★ 9.0
- Havis Amanda: The Beauty of Helsinki 1982 · ★ 9.0
- Kinetic Pictures 1962 · ★ 6.0
- Talking Hands 1959
- The Junk Artist 1965
- Don Quijote 1961
- Human Signs 1966
- Blue-Eyed Helsinki 1963
- Alvar Aalto: A Finnish Architect 1972
- Is This the World of Teddy? 1969
- Kinescope 1991
- Food 1968