All posts by Mika Taanila

THE WORLD screening at Espoo Ciné Film Festival ( )

May 11, 2019 - May 11, 2019

Mika Taanila’s short collage film The World (2017) is showing at Espoo Ciné on Saturday 11 May, in a combined screening back to back with The Man Who Fell to Earth (dir. Nicolas Roeg 1976), the feature film which it is based on. Followed by Q&A.

16:45h at Louhisali, Espoo.

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Film retrospective at Suomalaisen elokuvan festivaali in Turku ( )

April 11, 2019 - April 12, 2019

Mika Taanila is one of the guests for the 28th Suomalaisen elokuvan festivaali (“The Festival of Finnish Cinema”) in Turku. The festival runs four programs of Taanila’s films, making up fourteen titles in total. The selection contains two feature films, Mannerlaatta (2016) and Atomin Paluu (2015, co-directed by Jussi Eerola) and twelve short films 1998-2017.

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Traileri 2019

Festarin ohjelmisto julkistetaan perjantaina 15.3. Tässä esimakua tulevasta!

Publiée par Suomalaisen elokuvan festivaali sur Mercredi 13 mars 2019

 

 

ROBOCUP99 at Tampere Film Festival ( )

March 8, 2019 - March 9, 2019

Mika Taanila’s short film RoboCup99 (2000) is screening at Tampere Film Festival’s combined program entitled “New and Old Sincerity”, curated by Tytti Rantanen / AV-arkki.

Friday  8 March 2019: 14:00h at Plevna 6

Saturday 9 March 2019: 10:00h at Plevna 6

FILM READER and MY SILENCE (ON PAPER) at “Say No More”, IFFR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ( )

January 23, 2019 - February 10, 2019

Mika Taanila’s series Film Reader (2017) will be shown in the exhibition program of the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam, together with his 2015 work My Silence (on paper).

The exhibition “Mika Taanila: Works On Paper” is part of Say No More, IFFR’s thematic programme.

PrintRoom,  from 24 Jan to 10 Feb, 11:00 –18:00 Schietbaanstraat 12 + 17, 3014 ZV Rotterdam. Free entrance.

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The Beast from the series Film Reader (2017). Photo: Johnny Korkman.