Mika Taanila

Two wonderful cinematic portraits in the broadest sense and in between an experimental found-footage adaptation of an unknown physical test arrangement (A Physical Ring).

Mika Taanila's films deal with visionary and utopian ideas from architecture, electronics, genetic and human technology. Futuro is a search for traces of the story of the rise and fall of an all-plastic UFO-shaped house that caused a sensation in the 1960s.

Future is not what it used to be is a portrait of the nuclear physicist, inventor, artist, chain smoker and electronic music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi, whose projects were often way ahead of their time. A fascinating look back at the avant-garde of the 1960s and an attempt to answer the unanswered questions of 21st century science.

Program

Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (Finnland 1998, 29 min.)
A Physical Ring (Finnland 2002, 5 min.)
Future is not what it used to be (Finnland 2002, 53 min.)