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.
Mika 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 (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 (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.
The music video Kiila: Verbranntes Land by Mika Taanila is part of the video art program “As Seen on Television – Kuin kuvaruudussa” at Taidekoti Kirpilä from Wednesday 6 May, 2020 onwards. The program features five Finnish pieces that reflect with domestic television and living-room culture of the late 1980s.
Curator: Tytti Rantanen / AV-arkki.
Due to corona pandemia, the exhibition opens later than originally planned. New date not yet announced.
The documentary film Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998, 28 min, dir. Mika Taanila, script: Mika Taanila & Marko Home, prod. Kinotar) is one of the 13 films on architecture screening at Arkitekturfilm 2020 event in Oslo. The screening of Futuro takes place on Sunday 11 October 2020 at 13:00 at ROM – Room for Art and Architecture.
Mika Taanila’ solo exhibition “Damage/Control” at Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau in Bologna, Italy until 22 March 2020.
Exhibition was closed on 9 March, 2020. The Italian government has passed an emergency decree stating that all museums across the country must stay closed until 3 April 2020 in a bid to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
Video documentation at Artribune 12 February 2020:
Damage control. Il video della mostra di Mika Taanila a Bologna
Piazza della Costituzione 11, Bologna
“SAVOKASÄLPÄ – Экспериментальные музыка и кино из Финляндии” tour presents Finnish experimental music and film in Russia from 23 to 29 November 2019. The featured artists are Mika Taanila, Anton Nikkilä, Alexei Borisov, Anne Hämäläinen, Modern Feelings, Pakasteet, Ilia Belorukov and Swissair.
Read Boris Nelepo’s article in Seance (7.11.2019)
Read Inna Kushnareva’s article in Colta (21.11.2019)
Read Moskino information about the film screenings in Moscow
Read about “Musical Time Machines” at Word Order, St. Petersburg
Read about the night at The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Pakasteet plays two live shows on this tour, on 26 November in Moscow with Alexei Borisov and on 27 November in St. Petersburg with Ilia Belarukov.
The tour is organised by N&B Research Digest in co-operation with Moskino and curator Boris Nelepo, Valtavat Ihmesilmälasit Records, Testifilmi Oy, Kinotar Oy, AV-arkki, Cultural Centre DOM, Floating Sound Gallery, Intonema, Word Order, Tipografiya, Kinematograf Klub, The Finnish Film Foundation and Alt Agency & Management with support from the Embassy of Finland in Moscow, the Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg, The Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg, the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (AVEK).
Tectonic Plate (dir. Mika Taanila, 2016, b/w 74 mins) is screening at Innis Town Hall in Toronto on Saturday 23 November 2019 at 19:00h. Free entry. The event is co-presented by Ad Hoc and Archive/Counter-Archive.
“Ad Hoc is a screening collective with no fixed address. This is a mobile screening series, which aims to rethink what an experience of cinema can be, including the spaces in which it can be exhibited. We seek to reposition historical landmarks and buried treasures within the on-going tradition of experimental and other non-commercial modes of filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto, throughout Canada, and internationally. Within these parameters, we aspire to diversity in programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisciplinary screening events that bring together varied communities.”
Ad Hoc = Stephen Broomer, Daniel McIntyre, Cameron Moneo, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Tess Takahashi, Bart Testa.
