Four films by Mika Taanila are screening at Ekko Festival XVIII in Bergen, Norway on Sunday 24th October 2021.
The program entitled “Collapsing Worlds” plays non-stop at Østre – 2.etg – Fongaard from noon until 23:00h.
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Solo show “Film without Film” at Galerie Anhava in Helsinki ( )
November 25, 2021 - December 19, 2021Mika Taanila: “Film without Film”, Galerie Anhava, 25 November – 19 December 2021.Review by Sini Mononen / HS
FAILED EMPTINESS. TIME at DocLisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema in Portugal ( )
October 21, 2021 - October 31, 2021The short film Failed Emptiness. Time (2021, 14 min) is screening at DocLisboa International Film Festival on the 28th and 30th of October 2021. The film is part of combined programs entitled Liquid Bodies.
Script: Harry Salmenniemi, music: Éliane Radigue, director: Mika Taanila, produced by Testifilmi.
FAILED EMPTINESS. TIME at “In Silico” Competition at XXXI Message to Man International Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia ( )
October 29, 2021 - November 4, 2021The 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 MOST ELECTRIFIED TOWN IN FINLAND at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts ( )
October 23, 2021 - January 9, 2022The 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.
THE ZONE OF TOTAL ECLIPSE, A PHYSICAL RING, VERBRANNTES LAND and KATOAMINEN at Fracto in Berlin, Germany ( )
October 21, 2021 - October 24, 2021Four 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 ZONE OF TOTAL ECLIPSE at Foto Tallinn 2021 in Estonia ( )
September 26, 2021 - September 26, 2021The 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.
TECTONIC PLATE and OPTICAL SOUND at When The Light Hits Just Right in Vaasa ( )
August 6, 2021 - August 8, 2021Mika 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.
PATENT NR. 314805 at IndieLisboa in Portugal ( )
August 21, 2021 - September 6, 2021The 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.
