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
Movie
Suolaista ja makeaa
Assistant Director
1995
Movie
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
Writer
2002
Movie
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
2011
Movie
Return of the Atom
Director
2015
Movie
Tectonic Plate
Director
2016
Movie
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
Director
1998
Movie
A Physical Ring
Director
2002
Movie
Optical Sound
Director
2005
Movie
Realms
Editor
2019
Movie
Failed Emptiness. Place
Director
2023
Movie
Bad Vugum – From B To V
Director
1995
Movie
The Zone of Total Eclipse
Director
2006