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.
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PATENT Nr. 314805 screening at EXiS Festival in Seoul, South Korea ( )
August 2, 2020The 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 at Koort(S) – Short Movies Mini Festival at Sickhouse in Enschede, The Netherlands ( )
July 10, 2020The 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€.
PATENT NR. 314805 screening at The Echo of Oberhausen, Moskino, Russia ( )
June 6, 2020The short film Patent Nr. 314805 (dir. Mika Taanila, 2020, 2 min) is available online in Russia thru Moskino on Saturday, 6 June 2020, between 5:40 pm and 9 pm (Moscow time). The screening program is called “The Echo of the Oberhausen Festival”. The screening will be available only in Russia.
Patent Nr. 314805 (2020)
January 1, 1970Finnish 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.
PATENT NR. 314805 in the Competition of 66. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany ( )
May 13, 2020 - May 18, 2020The 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.
THE WORLD at My Darling Quarantine Short Film Festival / online ( )
March 30, 2020 - April 5, 2020Mika Taanila’s collage film The World (2017, 8 min) is picked for the selection of Week 3 at My Darling Quarantine Short Film Festival.
Talking Shorts presents every week an online programme of seven short films on the subject of “dystopia” that have been suggested from our quarantined short film friends around the globe. The audience can then vote for their favourite film.
In light of the current COVID-19 situation that is unfolding across the world, the film industry has seen many events postponed and cancelled. This includes many major short film festivals, amongst them Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, the Glasgow Short Film Festival, Short Waves Festival in Poland and Canada’s Festival Regard, as well as such events as CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, SXSW in Texas, Tribeca in New York and Vision du Reel in Nyon.
In response to these events a new online short film festival entitled MY DARLING QUARANTINE will began on Monday 16th March. Hosted on the platform Talking Shorts, it will help raise money for those fighting against COVID-19 and those people and events that have been affected by the situation.
The festival was initiated by Enrico Vannucci, short film advisor for the Venice International Film Festival and programmer for Torino Short Film Market, who is currently living under quarantine conditions in Italy.
Pakasteet at Kotka Art 2020 exhibition, Finland ( )
June 6, 2020 - August 8, 2020Pakasteet (music duo of Jussi Lehtisalo and Mika Taanila) is part of the group exhibition “Kotka Art 2020: The End of the World” with a sound installation Solmeut (“Knots”) for two endless cassettes. The show is open at Galleria Uusikuva in the beautiful seaside town of Kotka in Kymenlaakso from 6 June until 8 August, 2020.
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Kotka Art 2020: Maailmanloppu -kesänäyttely Galleria Uusikuvassa lauantaina 6.6.–8.8.2020. Kuraattorit: Udi Salmiaitta ja Marko Turunen.
“Kotka Art 2020 kutsutut taiteilijat ovat Jussi Lehtisalo & Mika Taanila, Vilunki 3000, Lauri Ainala, Hemuloordi, Pauliina Mäkelä, Francois de Jonge ja Helge Reumann. He ovat kukin käsitelleet pirstaloituvan maailmankuvan teemaa tuotannossaan. Taiteilijavalinnoissa on kiinnitetty huomiota taiteellisen laadun lisäksi siihen, ettei tekijöitä ole nähty alueella aiemmin. Mukana on ensimmäistä kertaa myös ulkomaisia taiteilijioita.”
TECTONIC PLATE at “Craving Coincidence” at Ausland in Berlin, Germany / event postponed to a later date ( )
April 25, 2020Tectonic Plate (2016, 74′, dir. Mika Taanila) is screening at the event “Craving Coincidence: Underwater” at Ausland in Berlin on Saturday 25 April 2020.
For the series “Craving Coincidence”, Ausland has invited six musicians to curate one long night each, in between concert evening, salon and club night. They’re weaving their own concert into a multifaceted programme featuring contributions by further artists.
The second edition is put together by Nika Son, sound artist from Hamburg. Live acts: Beatriz Ferreyra, Container, Franziska Windisch, Vernon & Burns, Juditha Haeberlin and Cwelle.
In the late afternoon, preceding the live program, Mika Taanila screens Tectonic Plate, a cameraless film, with an electronic film score by Mika Vainio.