Rut Hillarp

Rut Hillarp

Known for

Directing

Born

February 21, 1914

Birthplace

Hässleholm, Kristianstad län, Sweden

Died

November 11, 2003 (aged 89)

Biography

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 photomontage in connection with poetry.

Less well-known is that her visual and expressive imagination was also expressed in some experimental films that came to be in collaboration with the Romanian photographer and filmmaker Mihail Livada, whose importance for Swedish experimental films is difficult...

Best known work

The White Hands
The White Hands
1950
Where Do You Wish to Ride?
Where Do You Wish to Ride?
1970
Dead Drunk
Dead Drunk
1961
The Wonderful Rendez-Vous
The Wonderful Rendez-Vous
1949

Filmography

  1. 1970

    Where Do You Wish to Ride?

    Director

  2. 1961

    Dead Drunk

    Director

  3. 1950

    The White Hands

    Director, Writer

  4. 1949

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