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Six Day Run

Finlandia. 2013. Color. 15 min. Experimental. Vídeo.
  • Film Director: Mika Taanila.
A film about one of the most extreme individual endurance sports dating back to the 1870s. During the event, 35 runners from different countries run laps around a one-mile paved loop in a park. The runners test the limits of their endurance and ability to recover from the stress of constantly moving.

Mika Taanila
Mika Taanila was born in 1965. He is an artist working fluently in the fields of documentary filmmaking, music videos and visual arts. His documentary films deal with the significant and alarming issues of human engineering and artificial urban surroundings. Visually, Taanila's films are outside the documentary mainstream canon. They are very colourful, fast-paced and contain a lot of music on the soundtrack.