Photo: MoA 2006

Placebo movie poster
Photo: Mauro Pérez Fariñas

Placebo – crew
Photo: Mauro Pérez Fariñas

Taneli Mustonen

Film and Television
1978, Finland
Placebo – direction of the film
Independent

Placebo is an enigmatic thriller about a young woman, Edith, whom a man abandons outside the city in an unconscious state. Edith, who has lost her memory, returns to the city and tries to continue living her life peacefully, but certain events lead her back to her husband – the man, who is Edith's worst enemy. The film is the diploma work of director Taneli Mustonen, cinematographer Daniel Lindholm and production designer Sanna–Mari Pirkola for the School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design. It has been produced by the Theater Academy of Finland in association with the University of Art and Design Helsinki and YLE/FST.

Team: Daniel Lindholm and Sanna–Mari Pirkola

Collaboration: FST, STV, University of Art and Design Helsinki, NorMa / Theatre Academy of Finland

Biography

Taneli Mustonen got a box seat to the world of cinema already as a child, when his parents took upon themselves to keep alive the supply of movies in Outokumpu by continuing to operate the cinema Kino Marita as a family business when it would otherwise have been closed down. The cinema reportoire broadened with new and different types of films in the 1990s when the family opened another theatre in Joensuu, specialising in movies imported by Cinema Mondo. As a schoolboy, Taneli worked as projectionist in the cinemas. He still likes to work as a projectionist whenever he can to keep up the vanishing skill of projecting 35mm film.
Inspired by his own films, amateur theatricals and filmmaking, Taneli sought admission to study film directing in 1998. He has directed three short films, as well as advertisements and music videos. In 2005 he worked as direction assistant at the filmmaking school in the University.
Apart from directing, Taneli Mustonen has also written scripts. In 1998 he received the filmmaking school's award for the best short film script.

Contact:

+358 50 531 7325
taneli.mustonen(at)uiah.fi

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Other Masters in this theme:
Marita Huurinainen | Petra Juva | Anu Kauhaniemi | Heikki Leikola | Daniel Lindholm | Sanna–Mari Pirkola | Salla Salin