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Rut Hillarp

Born February 21, 1914 · Hässleholm, Kristianstad län, Sweden

Died November 11, 2003 · aged 89

Rut Hillarp was a poet and photographer, and worked as a college teacher for many years. She has a given place in Swedish literary post-war modernism where she appeared with both poetry collections and novels, characterized by an erotic picture world and mythological patterns. After a few decades of silence as an author she returned in the 1980s as a poet, now experimenting with photographs and ph…

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The White Hands

The White Hands · 1950

The White Hands

"The White Hands" - 'I came to film in my capacity of poet, wanting to see whether I could express myself in pictures rather that in words-create a film poem. Not a traditional piece of lyric but something that suggests and hints and transmits its content even though it may not be comprehensible in a logic sense'. This is how Rut Hillarp described her film interpretation of the legend of Tristan and Isolde. She borrowed this classical theme from her collection of poetry The False Farewell. The White Hands is an attempted surrealistic visualization of a poem, using symbolic image sequences

The Wonderful Rendez-Vous

The Wonderful Rendez-Vous · 1949

The Wonderful Rendez-Vous

A man visits a woman, speaks, smokes, eats fruit and walks out again. Clothes appear on hangers before they one by one disappear. There is a sense of disgust surrounding the actions and the actual meeting.

Where Do You Wish to Ride?

Where Do You Wish to Ride? · 1970

Where Do You Wish to Ride?

Painted pictures of castles, knights and flowers to a poem by Karl Vennberg.

Dead Drunk

Dead Drunk · 1961

MovieDocumentary

“We made an insane film in Ibiza”. Rut Hillarp notes in her diary 1961. Hillarp films and participates herself in the company of her friends. In its drive to intoxication and lust, Dead Drunk has similarities with surrealist films and thus opens itself up to the unconscious action. (Filmform)

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The White Hands

The White Hands · 1950

The White Hands

"The White Hands" - 'I came to film in my capacity of poet, wanting to see whether I could express myself in pictures rather that in words-create a film poem. Not a traditional piece of lyric but something that suggests and hints and transmits its content even though it may not be comprehensible in a logic sense'. This is how Rut Hillarp described her film interpretation of the legend of Tristan and Isolde. She borrowed this classical theme from her collection of poetry The False Farewell. The White Hands is an attempted surrealistic visualization of a poem, using symbolic image sequences

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The Wonderful Rendez-Vous

The Wonderful Rendez-Vous · 1949

The Wonderful Rendez-Vous

A man visits a woman, speaks, smokes, eats fruit and walks out again. Clothes appear on hangers before they one by one disappear. There is a sense of disgust surrounding the actions and the actual meeting.

Director

Where Do You Wish to Ride?

Where Do You Wish to Ride? · 1970

Where Do You Wish to Ride?

Painted pictures of castles, knights and flowers to a poem by Karl Vennberg.

Director

Dead Drunk

Dead Drunk · 1961

MovieDocumentary

“We made an insane film in Ibiza”. Rut Hillarp notes in her diary 1961. Hillarp films and participates herself in the company of her friends. In its drive to intoxication and lust, Dead Drunk has similarities with surrealist films and thus opens itself up to the unconscious action. (Filmform)

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