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After studies in literature and visual culture, Yann Tonnar starts his career in 1999 as a tv reporter for RTL. His talent for the portrayal of quirky individuals is quickly noted in his short tv features, such as the summer 2002 series "Camping". In 2003 he spends a year at the New York Film Academy, then establishes himself as an independent filmmaker, based in Luxembourg.

His first documentary film "Weilerbach", deals with an asylum seeker's home observed over a period of three years. This film is followed by "Mir wëllen net bleiwen" (co-directed with Pascal Becker), a feature length documentary on Luxembourgish emigrates. He also directed a number of animated music videos, selected in festivals worldwide. He is a regular contributor with the contemporary art space "Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain". In 2011 he signed the camera work and editing for the installation "Music While We Work", a work by Taiwanese artist Hong-Kai Wang, commissioned for the Taiwanese Pavillion at the 54th Venice Art Biennial. The same year Yann Tonnar also wrote and directed two episodes for the first Luxembourgish sitcom "Weemseesdet".

2011 also sees the release of "Schrebergaart", a comeback to the documentary film, that confirms a talent as an observer of the human nature, a point of view that challenges conventions and a idiosyncratic sense of humor.

LIENS

http://vimeo.com/yanntonnar

FILMOGRAPHY

Weemseesdet – TV sitcom
Production: Deal Productions
FIrst Luxembourgish sitcom
2 episodes written and directed

Music While We Work – art installation
Production: Taipei Fine Arts Museum - 2011
Collaboration with artist Hong-Kai Wang on her sound and video installation for the Taiwanese Pavillion at the 54th Venice Biennial

Schrebergaart - documentary
Garden Stories   
Production: Samsa Film – 2011
55 min.
Plot: The microcosm of garden allotments in a steel town, observed through the four seasons.

Mir wëllen net bleiwen – documentary
co-directed with Pascal Becker
Production: Iris Productions - 2010
104 min.
Plot: Luxembourgers in exile, and why they left the richest country in the world.
http://www.theirisgroup.eu/movies/mir%2Dwellen%2Dnet%2Dbleiwen/

Weilerbach - documentary       
Production: Samsa Film / Maskénada - 2008
55 min.
Plot: Asylum seekers followed over a period of three years
Direction, camera and sound: Yann Tonnar

ULO – music video
Zap Zoo (co-directed with Claude Grosch)
Festival selections: Anima 2006, Bruxelles, Indie Music Video Festival – USA, Annecy 2007, Anifest – Budapest, Future Film Festival – Bologna
http://vimeo.com/3776957