Five short films by Mika Taanila are screening in the programs of experimental Nordic films at Message To Man Film Festival in St. Petersburg. Curator: Martin Grennberg, Stockholm.

Tuesday 17 September 2019 “Chromatism, Pulsation and the Empty Screen” with

Man and Science (2011, 27 secs) 16 mm
Branches (2017, 6 min) 3D anaglyph

Wednesday 18 September 2019 “Helsinki Film Workshop and Beyond” with

I Like This Silence (1989, 1 min)
Sommerreise (2006, 3 mins) 16 mm
The Zone of Total Eclipse (2006, 6 mins) 2 x 16 mm film performance

The five-part programme includes both classical and contemporary works by filmmakers and video artists from Northern Europe. Video and 16 mm film screenings will take place at Aurora Cinema (Nevsky prospect, 60) on September 15-19. Curator Martin Grennberger presents the programme.

Programme guests: film directors Inger Lise Hansen (Norway), Tinne Zenner (Denmark), Mika Taanila (Finland) and Thorbjorg Jonsdottir (Iceland).

Musiikkivyöry performs live  at “Pölyä” record launch event at Korjaamo in Helsinki on Friday 10 May 2019. Other live acts are Vessel Umpio, Vihan Muna, Hande Virkki (Lola Ego), Tommi Keränen and Olimpia Slendid.

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Musiikkivyöry: Tulemme sokeiksi CD

https://soundcloud.com/ektrorecords/02-tulemme-sokeiksi

Swissair‘s double-projection short film Hermafrodiitit is screening at “Pölyä” record launch event at Korjaamo in Helsinki on Friday 10 May 2019.

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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.

program notes

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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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

Mika Taanila’s series Film Reader is part of the group exhibition The Dream of the Library at Museum für Gegenwartkunst in Siegen, Germany. The show is open from Sunday 31 march 2019 until Sunday 1 September 2019.

Mika Taanila’s video installation A Physical Ring (2002, music by Mika Vainio) is part of a group exhibition Persisting Realities at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien in Berlin from 26 January to 17 March, 2019. The show runs as part of CTM Festival.