# Mixed Feelings

> A series of four programmes for Channel 4's Whose Choice?

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# Mixed Feelings

1998 · Television series · BetaSP · 4 × 3 minutes

Episodes "Virginia" and "Anita", directed by Marjut Rimminen and Gillian Lacey

A series of four programmes for Channel 4's Whose Choice? season, commemorating thirty years since the change of the abortion law in England. Virginia's and Anita's stories are the first two of four personal accounts of different experiences of abortion.

Credits

- Researcher: Rachel Bailey
- Production manager: Nicolette Howard
- Camera: Terry Flaxton
- Sound: Jonathan Enkel
- Dubbing mixer: George Foulgham
- Composers: Sue Herrod, Mieko Shimizu
- Digital compositing: Timo Arnall, Marjut Rimminen
- Editing: Tamara MacLachlan
- Direction: Marjut Rimminen
- Producer: Marilyn Milgrom
- Production: An APT production for Channel 4
- Distribution: Channel Four International

## Writing about the work

- **Marjut Rimminen**: Giannalberto Bendazzi, [Animation: A World History, Volume III: Contemporary Times](https://books.google.com/books?id=BpvhCgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT86) 2016, CRC Press: a biographical paragraph in the chapter on Great Britain (pages 71 to 72), from the 1968 graduation and [Vivante](https://marjutrimminen.com/commercials/vivante/)'s Zagreb award through Halas and Batchelor, the commercials for Finland, [The Stain](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/the-stain/), [Urpo & Turpo](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/urpo-and-turpo/), [Many Happy Returns](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/many-happy-returns/), Mixed Feelings and [Red Ribbon](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/unicef-aids-red-ribbon/) to [Learned by Heart](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/learned-by-heart/), with a still from it; and a passage in the Finland chapter ([page 135](https://books.google.com/books?id=BpvhCgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT221)): Learned by Heart "x-rays the country's history through the eyes of a child"
- **[Some Protection](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/some-protection/), [The Stain](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/the-stain/), [Many Happy Returns](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/many-happy-returns/), Mixed Feelings**: Clare Kitson, [British Animation: The Channel 4 Factor](https://archive.org/details/britishanimation0000kits) 2008, Parliament Hill Books, the history of the channel's animation commissioning: of the Blind Justice series, "the final film, Some Protection by Marjut Rimminen, would attract the most accolades"; The Stain was "brought to the channel by two of the Blind Justice team"; Mixed Feelings and the credits of Many Happy Returns; a photograph of Marjut at Fantoche with its Grand Prix (page 165)

- [Absolut Marjut Rimminen](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/absolut-marjut-rimminen/)
- [Unicef AIDS Red Ribbon](https://marjutrimminen.com/films/unicef-aids-red-ribbon/)

## Get in touch

For festival and screening enquiries, teaching, masterclasses, or correspondence:

[marjut.rimminen@gmail.com](mailto:marjut.rimminen@gmail.com)