Tectonic Plate (2016) and A Physical Ring (2002) are screening on two Mika Vainio (1963-2017) tribute nights at Film Noir Cinema in New York City. The films are shown together with Jimi Tenor’s Sähkö – The Movie (1995). Film Noir Cinema, 122 Meserole Ave, Greenpoint NY 11222.
The documentary film Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998, 28′, dir. Mika Taanila) is screening as part of the event “100 Objects from Finland” at Museo de Artes Decorativas in Madrid. The date is Monday 8 January 2018 and the screening starts at 19:00.
Free entrance, Spanish subtitles.
Mika Taanila’s short 3D film Delay of Game (“Pelin viivyttäminen”) is screening in the Nordic Competition in The 30th Anniversary Edition of Minimalen Kortfilmfestival in Trondheim, Norway 23–28 January 2018.
A program of five short films by Mika Taanila is screening at Vindöga Fia Festivalen in Sandviken, Sweden at 19:00h on Friday 9 November 2017. Venue: Kulturcentrum Sandviken.
Film titles: Delay of Game (in anaglyph 3D), Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow, Optical Sound, RoboCup99 and Six Day Run.
Mika Taanila’s short film Optical Sound (2005) is screening at the 32th Brest International Short Film Festival, 7.–12.11.2017 in France.
Optical Sound screens in the showcase curated by Sari Volanen, the short film producer at the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE on Wednesday, November 8 at 17:30.
The short collage film The World (2017) is screening at 18:00h on Friday 17 November 2017 at The 10th Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival in Florence. Venue: Cinema La Compagnia.
The collage film The World (2017) is screening in the short film competition program of traditional Kettupäivät Film Festival, taking place in Helsinki 15.-19.11.2017.
“Seismic Ooze: A Survey of Works by Mika Taanila” is a series of events in London, curated by Stanley Schtinter. A total of 23 moving image works are shown between 16 to 22 October 2017 at various venues. Links to individual events are as follows:
Whitechapel Gallery Saturday 21 October
Close-Up Film Centre Sunday 22 October
A Physical Ring and Verbranntes Land are screening in the context of an exhibition of Finnish experimental music in Madrid. The venue is Espacio Trapézio , the time Monday, October 23 at 19:00h.