Mika Taanila
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 22, 1965 (age 61)
- Birthplace
- Helsinki, Finland
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.
Known For
Filmography
Failed Emptiness
Movie · Director
Monica in the South Seas
Movie · Director
Failed Emptiness. Place
Movie · Director
Verbranntes land
Movie · Director
Failed Emptiness. Time
Movie · Director
Vanishing
Movie · Director
Patent Nr. 314805
Movie · Director
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
Movie · Director
The World
Movie · Director
Branches
Movie · Director
Delay of Game
Movie · Director
Tectonic Plate
Movie · Director
Return of the Atom
Movie · Director
Six Day Run
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My Silence
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Spindrift
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Man and Science
Movie · Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Movie · Director
The Zone of Total Eclipse
Movie · Director
Sommerreise
Movie · Director
Optical Sound
Movie · Director
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
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A Physical Ring
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RoboCup99
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Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
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Bad Vugum – From B To V
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A City Symphony
Movie · Director
Suolaista ja makeaa
Movie · Assistant Director
The Double - Russian industrial music and low tech videos
Movie · Director
Hermaphrodites
Movie · Director