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.
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Movies (38)
D Is for Distance
2026 · Producer
John 9:25 / 52:9 nhoJ
2026 · Music
Nox
2026 · Producer
John 9:25
2025 · Music
Failed Emptiness
2024 · Director, Editor, Producer
Monica in the South Seas
2023 · Editor, Director, Screenplay
Failed Emptiness. Place
2023 · Director
Verbranntes land
2022 · Director
Failed Emptiness. Time
2021 · Director
Rentrer chez soi
2020 · Assistant Camera
Patent Nr. 314805
2020 · Director, Writer
Vanishing
2020 · Director
Realms
2019 · Editor
Flame
2018 · Producer
The World
2017 · Director, Producer, Script, Editor
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
2017 · Director, Cinematography
Branches
2017 · Director
Delay of Game
2017 · Music, Cinematography, Director, Screenplay
Tectonic Plate
2016 · Director
Return of the Atom
2015 · Director
My Silence
2013 · Director
Six Day Run
2013 · Director
Spindrift
2013 · Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 · Director
Man and Science
2011 · Director
The Pests
2007 · Editor
The Zone of Total Eclipse
2006 · Director
Sommerreise
2006 · Producer, Cinematography, Director
Optical Sound
2005 · Director
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
2002 · Director, Writer, Editor
A Physical Ring
2002 · Director
RoboCup99
2000 · Director, Screenplay
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
1998 · Director, Screenplay
A City Symphony
1995 · Director
Bad Vugum – From B To V
1995 · Director
Suolaista ja makeaa
1995 · Assistant Director
The Double - Russian industrial music and low tech videos
1993 · Director
Hermaphrodites
1984 · Director
TV shows (0)
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