Director

Eino Ruutsalo

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 6

TMDB ID: 1168457

IMDb ID: nm0752232

Known for: Directing

Born: September 19, 1921

Died: April 2, 2001

Age: 79

Place of birth: Kymi, Finland

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1961 - 1968

Years active: 8

Wikidata: Q11857185

Also known as

Eino Ruuth

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Director (2)Producer (2)Writer (2)

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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.

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