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