Mika Taanila’s video installation My Silence (2013) and photograms from the series Black and White Movies (2013) are part of the group show “Arjen abstraktioita – Kudelmia kokoelmista” at Hämeenlinnan taidemuseo from October 10, 2024 until April 13, 2025. Curator: Tanja Pääskynen.
Failed Emptiness (2024, 66 min) is screening at The 31st European Film Festival in Palić, Serbia.
A Physical Ring (2001), Patent Nr. 314805 (2020), Optical Sound (2006), Future Is Not What It Used To Be (2002) and The World (2017) will be screened in Palić on the occasion of the Underground Spirit Award.
The cameraless feature Mannerlaatta (“Tectonic Plate”, 2016, 74 min) is screening at the 24th New Horizons Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland. The film screens in program slot “Lost, Lost, Lost”.
The short film Delay of Game (“Pelin viivyttäminen”, 2017, 5 min, anaglyph 3-D) is screening at OMVF Oulu Music Video Festival in August 2024 in a programme “Uncanny Sports II”, focusing on experimental sport films.
Music promo clip “Lily” (2021, dir. Mika Taanila) for Richard Dawson & Circle is screening at the programme “Uncanny Sports I”.
Failed Emptiness (2024, 66 min) is screening at Kino Tapiola on Sunday August 25 at 13:00h, followed by discussion between Mika Taanila, Harry Salmenniemi and Tytti Rantanen. Joint event by Espoo Ciné and Runokuu.
Finnish, with English subtitles
With Ariane Tretow
Director and editor: Mika Taanila
Cinematography: Jussi Eerola
Screenplay: Harry Salmenniemi
Sound and music: Nika Son
Additional music: Klara Lewis
Graphic design: Patrik Söderlund
Producers: Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola / Testifilmi
The film installation Ihminen ja tiede (“Man and Science”, 2011) by Mika Taanila is showing at WHS teatteri Union’s Gallery Unika every day during Metakino event from May 30 until June 2, 2024.
16 mm film loop, duration: 27 seconds
Epäonnistunut tyhjyys has its Finnish premiere at Midnight Sun Film Festival in June 2024.
2024, Finland, 66 min, b/w, 1:1,33
with Ariane Tretow
dir. Mika Taanila
script Harry Salmenniemi
cinematography Jussi Eerola
sound and music Nika Son
additional music Klara Lewis
graphic design Patrik Söderlund
translation Lola Rogers
produced by Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi
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“The vacuum robots in the performance titled I Might Be Stuck by Mika Taanila are almost the closest thing to a human consciousness. It is at their height that we rediscover the cinema, in other words at ground level. The device, which consists in projecting in real time on the screen the images captured by the two characters engaged in their domestic ballet (feet of the spectators, corners of the room, central aisle), also encourages the spectator to look down – which never happens in a traditional screening –since part of the film takes place there. The dialogue between the two robots and the device that seems to be their supervisor obviously contributes to creating an effect that is both comic and profound.”
– Écran Noir, May 16, 2022
Selected screenings:
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2022
Doclisboa 2023
Zwei Tage Strom, Filmpodium Zurich, 2024