Tectonic Plate (“Placas Tectónicas”, 2016, 74 min, dir. Mika Taanila) is screening at Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City as part of The Finnish Film Week (“La Semana de Cine Finlandés“) on Saturday 14 April 2018 at 18:00, re-run Sunday 15 April 2018 at 20:30. (Cineteca, Sala 7.) Taanila’s short collage film The World (2017, 8 min) is screening also in the same thematic programs on Tuesday 17 April and Wednesday 18 April 2018.
Mika Taanila is curating three “Conditional Cinema” programs for the 64th edition of Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage in 4–6 May, 2018.
Mika Taanila’s short collage film The World (2017) is screening at Aave Festival in Helsinki on Friday 13 April 2018 at WHS Teatteri Union at 17:30.
The World is part of a short film screening entitled Ghost Lights.
Mika Taanila’s film The Zone of Total Eclipse (2006, 6 min) is screening in Vienna at Austrian Film Museum on 19 March 2018. The double projection film is part of film programs on the occasion of the exhibition The Remains of Cinema held at the Künstlerhaus in Graz, curated by Sandro Droschl and Norbert Pfaffenbichler. Austrian Film Museum devotes an evening to rare finds and works stemming from unrealized or thwarted projects.
The gallery Widmertheodoridis is showing six works by Mika Taanila under the title “The Earth Who Fell to Man” from 17 March until 28 April 2018 in Eschlikon, Switzerland. On Easter Saturday, March 31, 2018, 6 pm there is a special screening of Tectonic Plate (74 mins) in the gallery. Free of charge.
Mika Taanila’s short film Optical Sound (2005) is screening at Cineteatro Sao Luiz in Brazil on 27 February 2018. The film is part of a program entitled “Enhanced Visions” as part of OLHO III / Tentacular. Curator: Vanina Saracino.
Mika Taanila’s video piece Verbranntes Land (2002) is screening as part of a lecture and screening by curator Amanda Schmitt (NYC) at Cinema Orion (Helsinki) on Saturday 3 March 2018 at 14:00. Free entry.
The event is made possible by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York’s MOBIUS Fellowship Program and Helsinki Contemporary’s Guest Curator Program.The screenings are made possible with the courtesy of ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe) and AV-arkki, The Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art (Helsinki).
The World (2017) by Mika Taanila is selected for the National Competition for films under 30 minutes at Tampere Short Film Festival. The film screens twice, on Friday 9 March at 16:00h (Plevna 5) and Saturday 10 March at 13.30h (Plevna 2).
Mika Taanila’s short film Optical Sound (2005) is screening at Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro on Friday 2 March 2018. The film is part of a program entitled “Enhanced Visions” as part of OLHO III / Tentacular. Curator: Vanina Saracino.
