Mannerlaatta is broadcasting in Finland on Yle Teema as part of the channel’s annual film festival. The cameraless feature is airing at 16:30h on Saturday 26 November 2016.
link to Yle Teema film festival
link to Tytti Rantanen’s article on Mannerlaatta
Black & White Movies (2013) is a series of 16 photogrammes. These “photographs without a camera” are based on black & white movies from 1924-1995, recorded on VHS home video cassettes, which the artist has collected over the years and then destroyed with specific plot-oriented methods. The residues of the destroyed tapes are making up the photogrammes; they are arranged in a photographic
darkroom on photosensitive material and finally shown as (framed) digital pigment prints. The series makes up an imaginary memory game, unrelated to the visitor’s familiarity with the movies.
One of the cassettes in the series is the French-Italian horror movie Les yeux sans visage (Eyes without a Face) directed by Georges Franju in 1960. “According to what I could remember from the film, I destroyed my own tape containing that film with chloroform,
sulphuric acid, knives and finally, fire. Showing this photogram print in my solo show in St. Louis led into a surprising, bizarre and very fortunate chain of events and correspondence with the next-door neighbor of the film’s young star actress, Edith Scob. As a result, Mrs. Scob – now living in Paris – was kind enough to donate to me the last remains of her once large VHS collection,” tells Taanila. The two-screen video meditation Tapes without Eyes is based on these “Scob-tapes”.
Shows:
Mannerlaatta – the original Finnish language version of Tectonic Plate – is screening as part of The 2nd Pori Film Festival program. The screening takes place on Wednesday 23 November at 16:00 in Promenadikeskus. After the screening Q&A with Mika Taanila.
The screening is followed by Taanila’s talk on cameraless films in the history of moving image. Venue: Bar Jussikka (Yrjönkatu 10), starting at 19:00 (in Finnish)
The cameraless feature film Tectonic Plate is screening six times at Spoutnik art house cinema in Genèva, November 2017. The screening dates are November 9, 14, 16, 22, 23 and 28, every day at 20:30h. Street address; 11 rue de la Coulouvrenière.
In the first screening on November 9, there is an introduction and Q&A with Mika Taanila.
link to Spoutnik program notes + info
balzer projects participates at UNTITLED Miami Beach art fair from 30 November to 4 December 2016, representing works by four artists: Brian Duggan, Nici Jost, David Rikard and Mika Taanila.
The feature documentary Return of the Atom (dir. Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola) is screening in Moscow as part of 360° Science and Technology Film Festival. The film shows twice during the festival, on21 & 26 October, 2016.
Venue: Documentary Film Centre, М. “Park Cultury”, Zubovsky Boulevard, 2, Moscow.
The short documentary film Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998, 28 min.) is screening at the 20th anniversary of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur in Switzerland. The film is part of the festival’s “Main Focus: Nordic Countries” and screens twice, on November 11 (16:30h, Casino Theatersaal) and November 12 (22:30h, Casino Festsaal).
The feature doc Return of the Atom (dir. Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola) is competing for The Best Nordic Documentary Award at Nordisk Panorama 2016 festival in Malmö, Sweden. The film is screening twice during the festival: 17 Sept in Panora 2 at 21:00 and 19 sept in Panora 3 at 09:30.
Feature film Tectonic Plate is selected for the official program of Milano Film Festival 8–18 September 2016.
“An adventure in material cinema, using only photocopies and making impressions on the film with objects, to talk about the fear of flying and the loss of orientation caused by jet lag. A unique experience of vision, not recommended for those who suffer from stroboscopy.” – MFF