Person
Mika Taanila
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 22, 1965
- From
- 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.
Images
Credits
Failed Emptiness. Time
Hermaphrodites
Return of the Atom
Vanishing
Failed Emptiness
Tectonic Plate
Monica in the South Seas
Failed Emptiness. Place
Six Day Run
My Silence
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
The World
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
A Physical Ring
Verbranntes land
Bad Vugum – From B To V
The Zone of Total Eclipse
Branches