Mika Taanila
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1965-05-22 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Helsinki, Finland
Mika Taanila
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.
Known For
Crew
(2025)
D is for Distance
Producer
(2024)
Failed Emptiness
Director, Editor, Producer
(2023)
Monica in the South Seas
Editor, Director, Screenplay
(2023)
Failed Emptiness. Place
Director
(2022)
Verbranntes land
Director
(2021)
Failed Emptiness. Time
Director
(2020)
Vanishing
Director
(2020)
Patent Nr. 314805
Director, Writer
(2019)
Realms
Editor
(2018)
Flame
Producer
(2017)
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
Director, Cinematography
(2017)
The World
Director, Producer, Script, Editor
(2017)
Branches
Director
(2017)
Delay of Game
Music, Cinematography, Director, Screenplay
(2016)
Tectonic Plate
Director
(2015)
Return of the Atom
Director
(2013)
Six Day Run
Director
(2013)
My Silence
Director
(2013)
Spindrift
Director
(2011)
Man and Science
Director
(2011)
(2007)
The Pests
Editor
(2006)
The Zone of Total Eclipse
Director
(2006)
Sommerreise
Producer, Cinematography, Director
(2005)
Optical Sound
Director
(2002)
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
Director, Writer, Editor
(2002)
A Physical Ring
Director
(2000)
RoboCup99
Director, Screenplay
(1998)
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
Director, Screenplay
(1995)
Bad Vugum – From B To V
Director
(1995)
A City Symphony
Director
(1995)
Suolaista ja makeaa
Assistant Director
(1993)
(1984)
Hermaphrodites
Director