++++ Mika Taanila (Born 1965) lives and works in Helsinki.

++++ An artist, film-maker and documentarist, Mika Taanila integrates and goes beyond the various planes of contemporary art. His films, video clips and installations are built according to the principles of connection, interaction and collaboration (such as with Mika Vainio, a member of the Pan Sonic group). Between sound and image, between the latest electronic culture and technological aspirations of the 1960s, between documentary film and advanced experiment, between fiction and reality, Taanila is working out a novel and protean approach to our representations of modernity and progress through his futuristic techno-utopias (the films FUTURO and ROBOCUP99). FYSIKAALINEN RENGAS (A Physical Ring) is a found-footage film. It is based on raw material from an anonymous Finnish physical test that took place in the 1940s. The original purpose of the test remains unknown to the present day. By careful editing techniques, inanimate research footage is assembled into a piece of kinetic fantasy. (Stéphanie Moisdon Trembley)

Fysikaalinen Rengas,(A Physical Ring),2002.Film still