The cameraless feature film Tectonic Plate (“Plaques tectoniques”) is screening at the festival Les Rencontres internationales – Nouveau cinéma et art contemporain in Paris. The screening takes place at Gaîté Lyrique Lyrique Auditorium, on Sunday 19 March 2017 at 14:00h. Introduction + Q&A with Mika Taanila.
The cameraless feature film Tectonic Plate has its North American premiere at Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA) in Montréal, Canada. The first screening is on Friday 24 March at 20:45 at Cinémathèque québécoise – Salle principale. Re-run takes place at UQAM – Salle Jean-Claude Lauzon on Saturday 1 April.
The short collage film The World is screening at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. It is part of program entitled “Project X and Other Shorts”, showing at Kunsthal Charlottenburg on Saturday March 18 at 14:00h and on Wednesday March 23 at 21:00h.
GEGENkino Film Festival will screen five programs of films directed by Mika Taanila on April 14-16, 2017.
The programs feature a selection of short films, as well as the two feature films Tectonic Plate (2017) and Return of The Atom (2016, co-dir. with Jussi Eerola) and SSEENNSSEESS live performance with Circle.
Three short archive collage films commissioned by Yle kulttuuri ja viihde “Oi maamme!” project , as part of Finland’s celebration of 100 years of independence.
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers (Teräväreunaisten siirtymämerkkien surullinen laulu) b&w, dur. 3’21”
Early 1950s newsreel laboratory marker films used for indicating effects like wipes, dissolves and fade-outs in the work print, now freed from their utilitarian practice.
Delay of Game (Pelin viivyttäminen) anaglyph 3D, col, dur. 5’04”
Nocturnal outdoor ice-hockey match revisited. On Thursday, January 14th, 1954 the weather in Helsinki was mild, only minus two degrees centigrade.
Branches (Oksat) anaglyph 3D, col, dur. 6’07”
Helsinki in four shots, four locations, accompanied by four tape loops.
Producer: Minna Lindroos / Yle kulttuuri ja viihde
Commissioner: Harto Hänninen
Sound design: Olli Huhtanen
Director, editor, music: Mika Taanila
Co-script for Branches: Jussi Eerola
DCPs: Teijo Pellinen / Kinokki
Supported by AVEK / Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo
The Man Who Fell to Earth evacuated and flipped. In abandoned landscapes, animals, furniture and empty vehicles are left awaiting for disaster. ”We must have died alone, a long long time ago.” (D.B.)
The concept appears in two different forms: The World is a short film for a cinema screen, whereas The Earth Who Fell to Man is a single-channel video installation. They both use the same source material and reductionist approach. The difference between the two incarnations of the project is their structure and order in the narrative flow of images. The World has a beginning, middle part and an ending. TEWFTM can be watched as at any given random point.
link to trailer of The Earth Who Fell to Man
Selected screenings for The World:
Selected screenings for TEWHTM:
balzer projects participates to Art Rotterdam Main Section, February 9 – 12, 2017 showing Brian Duggan, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Nici Jost, Sebastian Mejia, Natalie Reusser, Angelika Schori and Mika Taanila. For more information, please visit the fair’s website.
link to balzer projects
The short archival collage film Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers (“Teräväreunaisten siirtymämerkkien surullinen laulu”) is premiering at Tampere Film Festival in March 2017. The film is commissioned by Yle’s Oi maamme! project and screens in National Competition program #10 on Friday 10 March at 12:00 and on Saturday 11 march at 14:00 in Cinema Plevna.
The short film Ihminen ja tiede (“Man and Science”) is screening at Gloria Cultural Arena on Saturday March 8, 2017 at 21:00 as part of the annual IHME Contemporary Art Festival in Helsinki. The silent 27-second flicker film will be shown in its original 16 mm film format, three times back-to-back as part of a program dedicated to the art of discarded films. The 2017 film programs of IHME are curated by Olaf Möller.