Mika Taanila
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 22, 1965
- Place of birth
- 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.
Movies directed by Mika Taanila
- The Future Is Not What It Used to Be 2002 · ★ 6.7
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero 2011 · ★ 4.3
- Return of the Atom 2015 · ★ 6.4
- Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow 1998 · ★ 6.2
- Tectonic Plate 2016 · ★ 6.7
- A Physical Ring 2002 · ★ 5.0
- Optical Sound 2005 · ★ 6.0
- Failed Emptiness. Place 2023 · ★ 2.0
- Bad Vugum – From B To V 1995 · ★ 6.0
- The Zone of Total Eclipse 2006 · ★ 5.0
- RoboCup99 2000 · ★ 6.0
- A City Symphony 1995 · ★ 8.0
- Failed Emptiness. Time 2021
- Hermaphrodites 1984
- Vanishing 2020
- Failed Emptiness 2024
- Monica in the South Seas 2023
- Six Day Run 2013
- My Silence 2013
- Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers 2017
- The World 2017
- Verbranntes land 2022
- Branches 2017
- Sommerreise 2006
- Delay of Game 2017
- Spindrift 2013
- Man and Science 2011
- Patent Nr. 314805 2020
- The Double - Russian industrial music and low tech videos 1993