Mika Taanila
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.
Crew
Failed Emptiness. Time
Director
Return of the Atom
Director
Failed Emptiness
Director, Editor, Producer
Monica in the South Seas
Editor, Director, Screenplay
Failed Emptiness. Place
Director
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
Director, Cinematography
The World
Director, Producer, Script, Editor
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
Director, Writer, Editor
Bad Vugum – From B To V
Director
The Zone of Total Eclipse
Director
Sommerreise
Producer, Cinematography, Director
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
Director, Screenplay
Delay of Game
Music, Cinematography, Director, Screenplay
RoboCup99
Director, Screenplay
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
Patent Nr. 314805
Director, Writer
D Is for Distance
Producer
Suolaista ja makeaa
Assistant Director
The Double - Russian industrial music and low tech videos
Director
