A rare screening of The Double – Russian Industrial Music and Low Tech Videos (1993, 50 mins) takes place at MY Sound Of Music festival in Salzburg, Austria, on Saturday the 4th of October, 2014 (Das Kino, 19:00).  After the screening Anton Nikkilä will give a short talk about the first wave of Russian underground music videos of the early 1990s. He will also show and discuss recent political Youtube music videos from Russia, and answer questions from the audience.

Made in 1993 and originally entitled Kirjoituksia kellarista – venäläistä teollisuusmusiikkia ja low tech -videota the program features a short documentary introduction by Anton Nikkilä and Mika Taanila shot during their trip to Moscow, followed  with a selection of perplexing Russian music videos 1989–1993. The program was commissioned back in the days by MuuMedia Festival in Helsinki and Finnish YLE TV1 broadcasters.

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The short film Six Day Run is screening at Sandviken’s Kulturnatta event on 13 September, 2014, distributed by Av-arkki. The screening “Finsk videokonst” starts in Kulturcentrum at 22h and features eight other contemporary short films from Finland.

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The video installation My Silence is part of Society Acts – The Moderna Exhibtion 2014 at Moderna Museet Malmö in Sweden.  The exhibition features 38 contemporary artists and artist groups from, or based in, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Curator: Andreas Nilsson.

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Six Day Run is screening at  the 25th International Film Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Ihminen ja tiede (“Man and Science”, 2011, b/w, 37 seconds) screening as part of “Schriftfilme: Schrift als Bild in Bewegung”– a large exhibition of lettrist cinema at The National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Lithuania 10 October – 9 November 2014

Six Day Run, A Physical Ring, Optical Sound, Futuro and RoboCup99 are screening at 19:00 at Cine Tonalá, México City as part of the exhibition “Parallax”. Mika Taanila’s presentation with a post-screening Q&A.

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Cine Tonalá

Future Is Not What It Used To Be,  Sommerreise and Spindrift (by Jan Bark & Erkki Kurenniemi) are screening at 19:00 at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, México City as part of the exhibition “Parallax”. Mika Taanila’s presentation with a post-screening Q&A.

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Six Day Run screening at 30th Hamburg Short Film Festival as part of special program “Motiv: Bis zum umfallen” (“Fit To Drop”).  The programme deals with the spiritual experiences beyond the point of exhaustion and ecstasy in sports, both as a spectator and as a participant. Curator: Lars Frehse.

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Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow is part of the exhibition Lo que ha de venir ya ha llegado (“What is to Come Has Already Arrived”) at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain 22 May–24 August 2014. “

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