The short film Failed Emptiness. Time (2021, 14 min) has been selected to the competition program “In Silico” at XXXI Message to Man International Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Script: Harry Salmenniemi, music: Éliane Radigue, director: Mika Taanila, produced by Testifilmi.
The three-screen video installation The Most Electrified Town in Finland (2012) by Mika Taanila is part of the group exhibition “The World Began without the Human Race and It Will End without It” at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Dates: 23 October 2021 until 9 January 2022. Curator: Junya Yamamine.
Four short films by Mika Taanila are screening at Fracto Experimental Film Encounter in Berlin on 21–24 October 2021.
The dual-projection 16 mm film performance The Zone of Total Eclipse (2006), analogue music video Verbranntes Land (2000) and the sort film A Physical Ring (2002, 35 mm) are part of “Scorched Ground – Appropriation and Found Footage in Finnish Artists’ Moving Images”, curated by Kari Yli-Annala. The program includes works by Miia Rinne, Mika Taanila, Seppo Renvall, Sami van Ingen, Saara Ekström, Elina Oikari, Juha van Ingen and Jarkko Räsänen.
The super 8 film Katomaninen (“Vanishing”, 2020) is part of Fracto’s “Selection #4: Transfiguration”.
The double-screen 16 mm film The Zone of Total Eclipse (2006) by Mika Taanila is screening on Sunday 26th of September 2016 at Foto Tallinn‘s artist’s film program “Diplopia”. Venue: Kino Sõprus, Vana-Posti 8. Curators: Len Murusalu and Julien Ross.
Mika Taanila’s Tectonic Plate (2016, 74 min) and Optical Sound (2006, 6 min) are screening in Vaasa at When The Light Hits Just Right – Analogue Film & Photography Festival 6–8 August 2021.
The short film Patent Nr. 314805 (dir. Mika Taanila, 2020, testifilmi #6) is screening at IndieLisboa festival.
The section Director’s Cut features new films that plunge into the memory of cinema as its main inspiration and films that rework the cinematographic visual heritage.
The original Finnish language version of Mika Taanila’s film Mannerlaatta (2015, 74 min) is screening at Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival on Thursday 19 August 2021.
The event is co-organized by the film festival and Savonlinnan Uusi taidemuseo (SLUT) takes place at Kulttuurikellari at 19h. Free entrance.
The short film Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (dir. Mika Taanila, 1998, 28 min) is part of the exhibition “Flexibilité” at The Museum of Architecture (Maison de l’Architecture MA) in Geneva, Switzerland from 22 September until 3 October 2021.
“Flexibilité” is curated by Simon Lamunière. Participating artists: Davide-Christelle Sanvee, A.Luna (Adiff) Ecocapsule, N55, Z-Triton, Mika Taanila, PAO Conférences de Michel Agier, Fiona Meadows, Saskia Cousin, Carla Juaçaba, Aigrs Lauzis and Holz&Gonzalez. The group exhibition is part of a larger project called Open House.
The short film Failed Emptiness. Time (2021, 14 min) is selected for the International Competition Selection at the 6th MIEFF in Moscow, Russia. The festival runs from August 11 to 16, 2021.
International Competition screenings take place in the cinema of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Directed by Mika Taanila, script by Harry Salmenniemi, music by Éliane Radigue, produced for Testifilmi by Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola.
