The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
Tulevaisuus ei ole entisensä
A portrait of Erkki Kurenniemi along with 1960s avant-garde music and film, the early history of microcomputers and questions of 21st-century science. Taanila links past to present by showing excerpts of Kurenniemi’s early experimental films alongside documentation of his current project, in which he obsessively catalogues details of his everyday life so he can be re-constructed in the future, after his death.
Also in this combined programme
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The Zone of Total Eclipse
The Finnish artist Mika Taanila manipulates found scientific footage – a registration of an eclipse – that he shows in both positive and negative. -
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
This is a journey back in time to our recent futuristic past. A documentary by Finnish artist filmmaker Mika Taanila about the rise and fall… -
Optical Sound
A rhythmic choreography of printer parts and their now classic typography, interspersed with observations of office life.
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 52'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
