Mika Taanila’s sound installation Plastic Heart (“Muovisydän”) at WeeGee Exhibition Centre / EMMA, Tapiola, Espoo from 17 August until 16 September, 2018.
link to review in Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish)
Mika Taanila’s solo show “Partial Head Clog” is on show at La Neomudéjar in Madrid from 10 May until 29 July 2019.
Mika Taanila’s anaglyph 3D film Delay of Game (“Pelin viivyttäminen”, 2017, 6 min) has been selected for the International Competition The 34th Hamburg Short Film Festival that runs from 5 to 11 June, 2018.
Pakasteet, the musical duo project of Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle) and Mika Taanila (Swissair) is performing with Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now) on Saturday 28 July 2018 at Ilmiö open-air festival in Turku.
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.
