Mika Taanila

Directing·May 22, 1965·Helsinki, Finland

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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.

Film	Credit
D Is for Distance2026 · Producer	Producer
Nox2026 · Producer	Producer
Failed Emptiness2024 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Monica in the South Seas2023 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Failed Emptiness. Place2023 · Director	Director
Verbranntes land2022 · Director	Director
Failed Emptiness. Time2021 · Director	Director
Patent Nr. 3148052020 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
VVanishing2020 · Director	Director
Flame2018 · Producer	Producer
The World2017 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers2017 · Director	Director
Branches2017 · Director	Director
DDelay of Game2017 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Tectonic Plate2016 · Director	Director
Return of the Atom2015 · Director	Director
MMy Silence2013 · Director	Director
SSix Day Run2013 · Director	Director
Spindrift2013 · Director	Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero2011 · Director	Director
MMan and Science2011 · Director	Director
The Zone of Total Eclipse2006 · Director	Director
SSommerreise2006 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Optical Sound2005 · Director	Director
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be2002 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Physical Ring2002 · Director	Director
RoboCup992000 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow1998 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
A City Symphony1995 · Director	Director
Bad Vugum – From B To V1995 · Director	Director
The Double - Russian industrial music and low tech videos1993 · Director	Director
HHermaphrodites1984 · Director	Director