The anaglyph 3-D short film Oksat (“Branches”) is premiering at Oberhausen Short Film Festival’s International Competition. The film screens on 12 and 13 May 2017 at cinema Lichtburg.
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TECTONIC PLATE at Lukutila, Jyväskylä, Finland. ( )
April 29, 2017 - April 29, 2017The original Finnish version of the cameraless feature film Mannerlaatta (“Tectonic Plate”) is screening at Jyväskylä’s new literature event Lukutila on Saturday 29 April 2017 at 14:00h (Ilokiven teatteritila). Introduction and Q&A with Harry Salmenniemi and Mika Taanila.
BRANCHES at 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen ( )
May 11, 2017 - April 16, 2017Anaglyph 3-D collage film Oksat (“Branches”) is selected for the International Competition of Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage 11-16 May 2017.
TECTONIC PLATE at Rencontres International, Paris, France ( )
March 19, 2017 - March 19, 2017The 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.
TECTONIC PLATE at Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art in Montréal, Canada ( )
March 24, 2017 - April 1, 2017The 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 WORLD screening at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark ( )
March 16, 2017 - March 23, 2017The 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.
Five film programs at GEGENkino Film Festival in Leipzig, Germany ( )
April 14, 2017 - April 16, 2017GEGENkino 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 miniature films / Oi maamme! (2017)
January 1, 1970Three 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 World / The Earth Who Fell to Man (2017)
January 1, 1970The 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:
- Tampere Film Festival, 2018
- IFFR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
- CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
- Ei tätä päivää, WHS Union, Helsinki, Finland 2017
- Midnight Sun FF, Sodankylä, Finland, 2017
Selected screenings for TEWHTM:
- “The End”, STUK, Leuven, Belgium, 2018
- “Cleaning Tapes”, Sandviken Konsthall, Sweden, 2017
- balzer projects, Basel, Switzerland, 2017
- Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany, 2017
- tape/basel, Switzerland, 2017