Too many messages received. Where there is no problem, there is no solution. “The vacuum robots are almost the closest thing to a human consciousness. It is at their height that we rediscover the cinema. In other words, at ground level. The dialogue between robots contributes to creating an effect that is both comic and profound” (écran Noir). The ballet of robots in the real s...
A re-editing of scientific left-over film footage from a solar eclipse measurement that took place 1945 in northern Finland. The film camera and sound recorder were used for the first time in history to measure the exact distance between two continents: Europe and North America. The film has two separate reels - positive (The Sun) and negative (The Moon) - which are project...
A film about one of the most extreme individual endurance sports dating back to the 1870s.
A film about a particular human utopia: the man-made autonomous machine. It was shot during the 1999 robot football World Cup. The standard rhetoric is all there: the slow-mos, the replays, the penalty kick shoot-outs, the complaints about bad conditions, the agony, the ecstasy. RoboCup99 is Taanila’s first meta-narrative about cinema and the role of the camera. The programmers...
Suddenly there is an enormous amount of time. At first everything is possible. Anything might happen.
"Erkki Kurenniemi is one of the great unsung pioneers of the electronic age, a man whose career encompasses a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers and robotics, and explores the interrelationships between art, nature and technology.
A leading figure in the Sixties avant-garde in music and film in Finland, Kurenniemi built his legendary DIMI synthesizers in the l...
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy. Among the materials he found in the estate of Robert and Frances Flaherty’s daughter Monica were the film reels and video tapes detailing several years of work on realisin...
After returning from a lengthy business trip to Tokyo, a nameless protagonist is inexplicably stuck at a hotel nearby the Helsinki airport. Not only that, he is also stuck in an endless loop of multi-tasking, his awareness split up, and his activities constantly divided into several directions at once. Various technical devices demand his attention, such as phones, computers, a...
