The short film Patent Nr. 314805 (2020, 2 min, dir. Mika Taanila, produced by Testifilmi) is selected for the competition Cut to the Chase at The R&A Helsinki Film Festival 17–27 September 2020.
Screening dates and venues for National Competition 3 :
Thursday 24.9.2020 at 15:45h Kinopalatsi 7
Friday 25.9.2020 at 21:30h Kinopalatsi 6
The short film Patent Nr. 314805 (2020, 2 min, dir. Mika Taanila, produced by Testifilmi) is nominated for the Best Nordic Short Film at the 30th Nordisk Panorama festival in Malmö, Sweden. The competition features 22 films from all the Nordic countries.
This year Nordisk Panorama will be a hybrid festival mixing online screenings with select in-person events in Malmö. Audiences in all five Nordic countries will have access to free streaming of the films as well as talks and masterclasses during the festival 17 – 27 September 2020.
The video piece Verbranntes Land (2002, 7 min) is part of the selection ”As Seen on Television – Kuin kuvaruudussa” running at Taidekoti Kirpilä (Kirpilä Art Collection) in Helsinki from 2 September 2020 onwards (open end – for the time being). Curator: Tytti Rantanen / AV-arkki.
Mannerlaatta (2015, 74 min, produced by Testifilmi) is screening at Kiasma Theatre on Saturday 22 August, 2020 at 13:00h. The screening is part of the events related to Mika Vainio’s solo exhibition 50 Hz in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. Vainio scored the electronic soundtrack for this cameraless feature film. NOTE! Mannerlaatta is the original language version with Finnish on-screen texts by Harry Salmenniemi. The English version of the film is called Tectonic Plate.
The short film Patent Nr. 314805 (dir. Mika Taanila, 2020, 2 min, produced by Testifilmi)is screening on Sunday 2 August 2020 at EXiS, Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, South Korea. The screening is entitled EX-Choice 12 and includes sonic abstraction shorts by László Moholy-Nagy, Guy Sherwin, Mary Ellen Bute and many others. The venue is Indie Space and the time is 19:00h.
Patent Nr. 314805 is a composition based on Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt’s experiments in solving the problem of sound-on-film already before the First World War. All images and sounds in this short film are produced from the surviving test materials originally created in 1914.
The World is screening on Friday 10 July 2020 in Enschede at Koort(S) – Short Movies Mini Festival presented by Sickhouse. The venue is located at the top floor of Warp Technopolis at Stationsplein 1, 7511 JD Enschede. Time: 19:30h, tickets 6,66€.
Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before World War I. All images and sounds in this film are produced from the surviving test materials originally created in 1914.
The short film Patent Nr. 314805 (2020, 2 min, dir. Mika Taanila) will have its world festival premiere at 66. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany from 13 to 18 May, 2020.
The film is produced by Testifilmi as part of The Finnish Film Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebrations.