Mika Taanila
Biography
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 Films
Failed Emptiness
Monica in the South Seas
Failed Emptiness. Place
Verbranntes land
Failed Emptiness. Time
Patent Nr. 314805
The World
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
Branches
Tectonic Plate
Return of the Atom
Spindrift
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
The Zone of Total Eclipse
Optical Sound
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
A Physical Ring
RoboCup99
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
A City Symphony
Bad Vugum – From B To V
