The short film Failed Emptiness. Place (dir. Mika Taanila, 2021, produced by Testifilmi) is screening at Quebec City Film Festival in Canada. The film is part of program strand entitled Terra Incognita.

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Scratch Collection 2023 programmed by Mika Taanila

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Light Cone presents the third edition of Scratch Collection, a journey through our catalogue of 6,500 films whose goal is to draw up a great world atlas of experimental cinema and reaffirm Light Cone as an evolving and thriving collection.

Light Cone entrusts the programming of this screening series to a guest (film historian, curator, programmer, filmmaker) who undertakes a residency in order to revisit the history of experimental cinema by exploring this exceptional collection; without any encyclopaedic pretension, since it is not a question of creating an anthology of classics, the programmer-in-residence is invited to take a fresh and personal look at Light Cone’s film catalog, marked by her or his own subjectivity – including possible lapses and obsessions… Each edition is thus a rediscovery of a film collection in perpetual evolution.

The 2023 Scratch Collection screenings will take place at the Luminor Hôtel de Ville(Paris 4th) in addition to our monthly Scratch Projection screenings, our biennial Scratch Expanded evening at the Voûtes (Paris 13th), an event dedicated to expanded cinema forms. The closing night will take place at the Berthelot Theater in Montreuil, in collaboration with Les Instants Chavirés.

We have entrusted the programming of this third edition to Mika Taanila, filmmaker and artist from Helsinki who works on the edge of experimental cinema, documentary film and video art.

– Light Cone

The feature film Monica in the South Seas (dir. Sami van Ingen & Mika Taanila, 2023) is screening at the 15th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival in Goyang, South Korea. The film is part of program slot Robert Flaherty Reloaded.

Venue: Megabox Baekseok Bella Citta

Times: Sunday September 17 at 17:30 + Wednesday September 20 at 17:00

Introduction and Q&A with Sami van Ingen.

Mika Taanila’s short film Patent Nr. 314805 (2020, 2 min) is screening at Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux in Le Havre, France on October 4, 2023. The film is part of a combined shorts’ program “Sons optiques”, together with films by Stefano Canapa, Oskar Fischinger, Guy Sherwin, Norman McLaren, Elke Groen & Christian Neubacher and Lis Rhodes.

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Feature documentary Monica in the South Seas (2023, 72 min, dir. Sami van Ingen & Mika Taanila) is screening at the 30th Rauma Blue Sea Film Festival  on Sunday August 20 at 10:10 am. Venue: Elokuvateatteri Iso-Hannu. Subtitles in Finnish and English. Introduction and Q&A with Sami van Ingen.

Feature documentary Monica in the South Seas (2023, 72 min, dir. Sami van Ingen & Mika Taanila) is screening at The 34th Espoo Ciné International Film Festival on Sunday August 27 at 13:00h. Venue: Kino Tapiola. Subtitles in Finnish and English. Introduction and Q&A with Sami van Ingen.

Feature documentary Monica in the South Seas (2023, 72 min, dir. Sami van Ingen & Mika Taanila) is screening at the 37th Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. Auditorium Damslab, Friday June 30 at 14:30h.

The single-channel video installation Failed Emptiness. Time (2021, 14 min) is part of the group exhibition Nagu tuuletu pilv (“Like a Windless Cloud”)at Hobusepea Gallery in Tallinn. The exhibition is open from August 12 until September 4, 2023.

text: Harry Salmenniemi, music: Éliane Radigue, production: Testifilmi

Feature documentary Monica in the South Seas (2023, 72 min, dir. Sami van Ingen & Mika Taanila) is screening at Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä.  Kitisen Kino, Friday June 16 at 12:45h.