Where Do You Wish to Ride?

"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

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.

“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)