The music video “Birdy” for 22-Pistepirkko is part of the group exhibition Korvamato (“Earworm – Media Art from Kiasma”) at Oulu City Hall from January 15 until December 31, 2026. The exhibition is part of Oulu European Capital of Culture 2026 events. Curator: Saara Karhunen / Kiasma.

Tectonic Plate (74 min, 2026) is screening at Casa Nacional Del Bicentenarion in Buenos Aires on Saturday November 25, 2025 at 18:00h. The film part of event “Desde Finlandia con amor” at Kino CNB.

The track “Eteinen / Hallway” from the cassette album Cleaning Tape (Ruton Music, 2021) by Mika Taanila is part of an online exhibition “Infinite Play: Platforms as Performative Space”, curated by Alessandra Bergamaschi and Rudá Babau in São Paulo, Brazil.

Watch and listen the full two-hour playlist of the exhibition here

The exhibition is produced and coordinated by Cifra – Digital Art Platform for streaming Contemporary Art

The short film The World (Mika Taanila, 2017) is screening at the brand new festival Taidekaupungin elokuvajuhlat in Mänttä 18-19 October, 2025.

The programs “Elo/kuva” are curated by Alina Mänttäri and feature short films directed by visual artists.

The World is screening at “Elo/kuva 2” on Saturday 18 October 16:30 at Kino Säde and on Sunday 19 October 11:00 at Kivijärvi-sali.

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The cinema performance I Might Be Stuck (2022, 30 min) is part of Light Cone‘s Scratch Collection #4: Sowing Trouble. It is showing in the final program of the cycle “Unravel: science fiction et speculative fabulations” on Tuesday November 25, 2025 at Luminor Hôtel de Ville in Paris.

Scratch Collection #4 is curated by Teresa Castro and Alice Leroy.

Director: Mika Taanila
Script: Harry Salmenniemi
Music: Jussi Lehtisalo
Cinematography: Jussi Eerola
Technical construction: Jari Lehtinen
Production: Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi

The feature film Failed Emptiness (2024, 66 min) is screening at The 32nd Blue Sea Film Festival in Rauma on Saturday August 23, 2025. Cinema Iso-Hannu at 17:45h. Original Finnish version Epäonnistunut tyhjyys with English subtitles. K7.

Pääosassa: Ariane Tretow
Ohjaus ja leikkaus: Mika Taanila
Kuvaus Jussi Eerola
Käsikirjoitus: Harry Salmenniemi
Ääni ja musiikki: Nika Son
Musiikki: Klara Lewis
Graafinen suunnittelu: Patrik Söderlund
Tuotanto: Testifilmi

Levitys: Elke ry

Failed Emptiness (dir. Mika Taanila, 2024, 66 min) is screening at the 25th New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. The program section “Lost, Lost, Lost” features experimental slow cinema, hybrid documentaries, convention-defying features, and film essays – curated by Agnieszka Szeffel, Mariusz Mikliński, and Mariusz Wojas.

Failed Emptiness screens three times in cinema NH during the festival between Sunday 20 and Friday 25 July and is available for online viewing until August 3, 2025 (geoblocked to Poland).

Script: Harry Salmenniemi

Cinematography: Jussi Eerola

Sound: Nika Son

Music: Nika Son, Klara Lewis

Produced by Testifilmi

The film Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (dir. Mika Taanila 1998, produced by Kinotar) is featured in the group exhibition “Was wäre wenn? Vom Spekulieren und Handeln für die Zukunft” at Kornhausforum in Bern, Switzerland. The show runs from November 28, 2025 until February 1, 2026. Curators: Nicolas Kerksieck und Katrin Weilenmann.

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Mika Taanila’s short films Patent Nr. 314805 (2020, produced Testifilmi) Sommerreise (2006, 3 min, silent 16 mm) and Optical Sound (2005, produced by Kinotar) and the music video “Boardroom Walk” (1998, produced by Bare Bone Business) for 22-Pistepirkko are screening at OMVF Oulu Music Video Festival on 21-24 August 2025. The program “In The World of Tomorrow” features also experimental short music films by Erkki Kurenniemi and Jan Bark.