Mika Taanila is another artist who operates with images as a composer does with sounds.  This is particularly evident in the stunning film he developed alongside The User, a Canadian artist duo made up of Thomas MacIntosh (architect) and Emmanuel Madan (composer) who developed the Automated Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers.http://www.asphodel.com/releases/view.php?Id=69He filmed a performance live – no mixing, no layering – and developed a film that references the physical materials generated by the printers. He quotes Buckminster Fuller – I seem to be a verb. . .  you need to look exactly back 25 years to think 25 years forward.  35mm, it was commissioned by film london, Lux and Spacex who invited 6 different visual artists to make 5 minute films that would be shown randomly across the UK in cinemas – in mainstream multiplex environment, without description or warning . . . the work was designed for the big screen.For Taanila, surrealism and automatic writing are key sources – he uses found materials, archival pieces that he then researches and uses. I love his films!