Cinematographer is a new show by Taite Music Prize-winning songwriter and performer Anthonie Tonnon. Celebrating the inspiration of cinema to modern Aotearoa, Cinematographer combines all new music with visual DJing by Erica Sklenars, custom videography by Theo Taylor, archival footage, and a psychogeographic narrative.
The show explores two timelines – the film-obsessed Situationist International and their revolutionary experiments in 1968 France, and the turn of the new millennium in Aotearoa, as our islands transformed into what Guy Debord called ‘The Society of the Spectacle.’ Tonnon links these worlds, swapping guitar for vocoder and turning Synthstrom Deluges into honorary turntables.
