The cameraless feature film Tectonic Plate is screening at Club Mayhem (Ragnhildgade 1) in Copenhagen on 8 November, 2018. The screening starts at 20:00h. Tickets 5 kr.

Biennial of Moving Image (Bienal de la Imagen en Movement in Spanish) in Buenos Aires is showing eight works by filmmaker/visual artist Mika Taanila. The event dates are from 1 to 11 November, 2018.

BIM is a combination between film festival and a contemporary art exhibition where the central axis is the non conventional films and experimental video. The biennial, with its exhibitions in museums and cinema theatres, is broadened by a wide offer of other activities (workshops, conferences, seminars and lectures with artists).

My Silence in the group exhibition “Qué hacer/A pesar de todo” at Muntref.

Five films in the program “Collapsing Worlds“: The Zone of Total Eclipse, Optical Sound, Future Is Not What It Used To Be, Branches, World. Venue: Cinain, at 18:00h.

Two films in the program “Tribute to Mika Vainio“: A Physical Ring, Tectonic Plate. Venue: Cinain, at 17:00h.

Artist talk “Poéticas del cine experimental” on Tuesday 6 November at Lumiton Museo del Cine Usina Audiovisual at 10am.

Mika Taanila’s Film Reader series is on show at The 14th International Experimental Film and Video Festival 25FPS in Zagreb, Croatia 27-30 September 2018.  A program of  five short films by Taanila  (A Physical Ring, Optical Sound, Branches, The Zone of Total Eclipse and Future Is Not What It Used To Be)  and SSEENNSSEESS live performance with Circle are also part of the festival’s oeuvre.

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Mika Taanila’s solo show entitled “The End” is on show at STUK in Leuven, Belgium from 17 October until 16 December 2018. The exhibition consists of works depicting dystopian future. The multi-channel video installation The Most Electrified Town in Finland (2012) shows the construction of the ill-fated nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3 in Eurajoki, Finland. The scale model of the same power plant called is a ready-made piece of marzipan art, entitled Date of Expiry.

In the single-channel video installation The Earth Who Fell to Man (2017) abandoned landscapes, animals, furniture and empty vehicles are left awaiting for disaster, accompanied by three cut-out works based on the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis.

trailer of The Earth Who Fell to Man

Mika Taanila’s The World (2017) is screening at an outdoor rooftop screening program of Finnish short films on Tuesday 26 June 2018. The session “LES SÉANCES AU TOP #6 X FORMAT COURT” starts at 22h and is presented by Clément Beraud. Tickets: 5€.

Venue: 200 Quai de Valmy 75010 Paris

The short film A Physical Ring (2002, 35mm, dir. Mika Taanila) is screening at Gartenbaukino Vienna as part of an evening dedicated to Mika Vainio (1963 – 2017).  Original film score by Ø.

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SSEENNSSEESS live performance by Circle & Mika Taanila is part of Jyväskylän Kesä summer festival. The show takes place on Thursday 5 July 2018 in The Main Audiotorium of the University.

“Finnish supergroup Circle and filmmaker/artist Mika Taanila’s SSEENNSSEESS show is spectacular, somewhat akin to an over-the-top rock opera and a theatrical audio-visual performance with dashes of glam rock, improv, metal, French chanson, and The Shangri La’s as well as Taanila’s perfectly timed, 16mm projections. A feast for the senses.” – Ruth Timmermans, Gonzo / Amsterdam.

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Mika Taanila has been invited to make a year-long silent digital projection on the ceiling of Stadtkino Basel’s bar as part of the city’s annual film festival Bildrausch. The piece is entitled Still Water.

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Mika Taanila’s sound installation Plastic Heart (“Muovisydän”) at WeeGee Exhibition Centre / EMMA, Tapiola, Espoo from 17 August until 16 September, 2018.

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link to e-flux announcement

link to review in Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish)