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The World / The Earth Who Fell to Man (2017)

January 1, 1970

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 World

link to trailer of The Earth Who Fell to Man

The World / The Earth Who Fell to Man (2017)

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

balzer projects at Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands ( )

February 9, 2017 - February 12, 2017

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

balzer logo 2 (kopio)

SAD SONG OF THE HARD-EDGE TRANSITION WIPE MARKERS at Tampere Film Festival, Finland ( )

March 8, 2017 - March 12, 2017

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.

Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers (2017)

MAN AND SCIENCE at IHME Contemporary Art Festival in Helsinki ( )

April 8, 2017 - April 8, 2017

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.

link to film program

link to IHME festival

RETURN OF THE ATOM screening at Stranger Than Fiction Dokumentarfilmfest in Bochum and Cologne, Germany ( )

February 1, 2017 - February 5, 2017

The feature documentary Return of The Atom (2015, 110 min, dir. Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola) is screening twice at Stranger Than Fiction Dokumentarfilmfest in Germany. The first screening is at Endstation Kino in Bochum, on Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 19:00 and the second one at Filmpalette in Cologne on Sunday, 5 February 2017 at 17:30 (+ Q&A ).

link to festival

link to trailer

Photo by Jussi Eerola / Kinotar
Photo by Jussi Eerola / Kinotar

RETURN OF THE ATOM screening at I Boreali Festival in Milan, Italy ( )

February 4, 2017 - February 4, 2017

The feature documentary Return of The Atom (2015, 110 min, dir. Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola) is screening at I Boreali – The Nordic Festival in Milan, Italy on Saturday the 4th of February 2017. The venue is Teatro Franco Parenti, via Pier Lombardo 14, 20137 Milano and the screening starts at 22:00h.

link to festival

Jussi Eerola and Mika Taanila shooting Return of the Atom in 2004.
Jussi Eerola and Mika Taanila shooting Return of the Atom in Olkiluoto. Photo by Hannes Vartiainen.
Olkiluoto 3 construction site, photo by Jussi eerola
Olkiluoto 3 construction site. Photo by Jussi Eerola.

RETURN OF THE ATOM screening at Umeå Bildmuseet, Sweden ( )

March 21, 2017 - March 21, 2017

The feature documentary Return of The Atom (2015, 110 min, dir. Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola) is screening at Umeå Bildmuseet in Sweden as part on ongoing events and talks in the Nuclear Culture programme. This screening is in conjunction with the Perpetual Uncertainty exhibition, produced by Bildmuseet and curated by Ele Carpenter, Goldsmiths University of London. The exhibition is accompanied by The Nuclear Culture Source Book, a collaboration between Bildmuseet, Arts Catalyst and Black Dog Publishing.

Date: 21 March 2017 at 18:30h.

trailer

link to Bildmuseet’s program