Cinematographer
Cinematographer
Cinematographer is a new show by Taite Prize-winning New Zealand songwriter and performer Anthonie Tonnon, combining new music with visual DJing, custom videography, archival footage, and a psychogeographic narrative.
The show traverses two worlds and timelines - the film-obsessed Situationist International and their revolutionary experiments which nearly overthrew France in 1968, and Whanganui, New Zealand at the turn of the millennium - a mysterious, forgotten city where a new battle is being waged against Guy Debort’s famous enemy: The Society of the Spectacle.
Tonnon draws a link between these seemingly distant elements, swapping his guitar for the vocoder, and converting his two Synthstrom Deluges into honorary turntables, to create a cinematic live documentary, with a sonic palette inspired by turn-of-the-millennium dance culture.
About Anthonie Tonnon
Few songwriters forge the kinds of paths that Anthonie Tonnon has. Experiments with synthesizers and sampling may change his sonic palette, but a constant is his lyric-writing, and shows that are creative works in themselves. Tonnon finds character-driven stories in existential subjects: evolution and the future of work in ‘Two Free Hands,’ or Machiavellian local government politics in ‘Water Underground.’ With long time producer, Jonathan Pearce (The Beths) Tonnon won New Zealand’s highest album prize, the Taite Music Prize, for their last album, Leave Love Out Of This. Collaborating again with Pearce, Tonnon is returning with a new album of music, and a new immersive show, Cinematographer in late 2026.
Anthonie Tonnon - 'Leave Love Out Of This' (Official Music Video)
Anthonie Tonnon - 'Entertainment' (Official Music Video)
Anthonie Tonnon - 'Peacetime Orders' Official Music Video
www.anthonietonnon.bandcamp.com