Epäonnistunut tyhjyys

Nobody goes into a film called Failed Emptiness expecting an uplifting message of hope. Finnish multimedia artist Mika Taanila expunges all optimistic sentiment from this moody procession of images, music and on-screen text. There is the thinnest filigree of narrative – rituals of domestic life, an individual seeking and losing their identity in the crowd – but the plot deliber...