Mika Taanila
Directing · Born May 22, 1965 · Helsinki, Finland
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.
Directed
Failed Emptiness
2024
Monica in the South Seas
2023
Failed Emptiness. Place
20232.0
Verbranntes land
2022
Failed Emptiness. Time
2021
Patent Nr. 314805
2020
The World
2017
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
2017
Branches
2017
Tectonic Plate
20166.7
Return of the Atom
20156.4
Spindrift
2013
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
20114.2
The Zone of Total Eclipse
20065.0
Optical Sound
20056.0
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
20026.7
A Physical Ring
20025.0
RoboCup99
20006.0
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
19986.3
A City Symphony
19958.0
Bad Vugum – From B To V
19956.0
The Double - Russian industrial music and low tech videos
1993