Mika Taanila
Directing
Mika Taanila is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Helsinki. His films have been screened at several international film festivals such as TIFF Toronto, IFFR Rotterdam, Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Clermont-Ferrand, Karlovy-Vary, Midnight Sun Film Festival, IDFA Amsterdam and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Taanila’s moving image installations have been shown at major international group shows, such as Venice Biennale (2017), Aichi Triennale (2013), Documenta (2012), Shanghai Biennale (2006) and Berlin Biennale (2004). Solo shows include Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna (2020), STUK, Leuven (2018), Kiasma, Helsinki (2013–14), CAM, St. Louis (2013), Badischer Kunstverein (2008) and Migrosmuseum, Zurich (2005). In 2015 Taanila was awarded The Ars Fennica prize.
Behind the camera
2024Failed Emptiness
Director
2023Monica in the South Seas
Director & Screenplay
2023Failed Emptiness. Place
Director
2022Verbranntes land
Director
2021Failed Emptiness. Time
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2020Patent Nr. 314805
Director & Writer
2017Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
Director
2017The World
Director
2017Branches
Director
2016Tectonic Plate
Director
2015Return of the Atom
Director
2013Spindrift
Director
201160 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
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2006The Zone of Total Eclipse
Director
2005Optical Sound
Director
2002The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
Director & Writer
2002A Physical Ring
Director
2000RoboCup99
Director & Screenplay
1998Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
Director & Screenplay
1995Bad Vugum – From B To V
Director
1995A City Symphony
Director
1993The Double - Russian industrial music and low tech videos
Director