Mika Taanila Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Mika Taanila Trailers
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03 November 2023
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy.
28 March 1995
A compilation from the independent record label Bad Vugum founded in 1987, originally based in Oulu, Finland.
28 January 2017
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg, 1976) evacuated and flipped. In abandoned landscapes, animals, furniture and empty vehicles are left awaiting for disaster.
22 December 2011
An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema.
01 January 1984
Swissair (Jari Härkönen, Pietari Koskinen, Mikko Kuusaari, Anton Nikkilä, Juha Soivio and Mika Taanila) were formed in the early 80s.
03 April 2026
A film essay montage of contemporary footage, archive and cinema history, about the age of post-truth and how one young man’s childhood epilepsy became representative of the woes of the world and how he triumphed against adversity.
11 September 2006
The Finnish artist Mika Taanila manipulates found scientific footage - a registration of an eclipse that took place in 1945 in northern Finland - that he shows in both positive and negative.
01 February 2013
In 1965, Swedish composer/musician Jan Bark proposed an experiment for a new kind of 'music for black-and-white TV'.
01 January 2005
Do machines play music? Is there a difference between a dot matrix printer and a record turntable? Optical Sound, Taanila’s 2005 wide-screen interpretation of [The User]’s brutalist sound piece for an array of obsolete printers, depicts the devices ratcheting horizontally together in a stalled symphony, inkjets repeatedly blackening the same area on the page.
17 May 2020
Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before the First World War.
01 January 2017
Early 1950s newsreel laboratory marker films used for indicating effects like wipes, dissolves and fade-outs in the work print, now freed from their utilitarian practice into a fantasy realm.
01 January 2020
A super 8 mm home movie print of The Inivisible Man treated with domestic bleach.
15 January 2023
The days are long. Their core is hot. Thermographic camera looks at a new residential area in eastern Helsinki.
31 December 2013
This 'reductionist' video and sound piece is an experiment into what happens when you take out the most important element from a specific canonized feature film classic.
01 January 2017
Woody observation case in Helsinki through early 1950s newsreel footage. Four locations in shots, accompanied by four tape loops and four locked-groove vinyls.
09 April 2011
This film was inspired by a discarded film fragment I found in a dustbin, a relic from a time before the advent of computer-programmed TV.
01 January 2002
A found-footage film based on 35mm film material from an anonymous Finnish physical test that took place in the 1940s.
21 October 2007
The Pests is a documentary film about us, the pests and our need for order.
10 March 2013
A film about spiritual exercise on a one-mile paved loop in a park. The Six Day Run is one of the most extreme individual endurance sports dating back to the 1870s.
15 February 2016
In a bold and original approach to memory, this Lettrist-inspired film maps an anxiety-ridden plane journey from Tokyo to Helsinki without the aid of photographic images.
26 January 2018
A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio.
17 March 1995
The story of Anna, who is searching for true love and meets Lauri on Midsummer's Eve.
02 February 2026
From the wreckage of a buddy comedy rises something stranger: a story that fractures midway into an existential revenge thriller—burning forward with the inevitability of the sun’s passage across the sky.
11 September 2015
A portrait of a small-town that is the unlikely site of a 'renaissance' of 'safe' nuclear energy started in 2004, a project that soon spiraled out of control.
01 May 2021
Suddenly there is an enormous amount of time. At first everything is possible. Anything might happen.
28 January 2019
Exploring geological epochs and kingdoms of life, Realms voyages through deep time from the primeval ocean to a post-human future.
13 November 2025
In 1980, 15-year-old Mika Taanila—soon to be a renowned filmmaker—recorded, under his then moniker Musiikkivyöry, a track titled We’re Becoming Blind.
20 November 2002
A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art.
22 November 2024
A three-week vacation in the middle of a heatwave. Failed Emptiness is an existential thriller that describes the familiar experience of emptiness when responsibilities end.
23 November 1998
A journey through time to our futuristic recent past. A documentary film about the rise and fall of a Finnish plastic house.
01 January 2022
"Taanila shows how video images degrade from excessive use. How it becomes ever less visible the more often it gets copied – scorched earth indeed, instructions, their sense vanishing due to excessive consultancy.
16 February 2026
Reworking of Karppanen's "John 9:25": double length, double reverse.
14 June 1995
The Helsinki of the 1990s, longed for by many, comes to life in Heikki Ahola's City Symphony. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this classic montage film offers a unique glimpse into the pulsating life of the capital at all hours of the day.
