Valentin Merz

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

0.7094

Gender

Male

Birthday

01-Jan-1985

Age

(41 years old)

Place of Birth

Zurich, Switzerland

Also Known As
  • Valentin Merz Tanoren
  • Valentin Merz Tanören

Valentin Merz

Biography

Born in 1985 in Zurich, Switzerland, Valentin Merz moved to Mexico City in 2007 where he worked as a typographer and studied at Haute école d’art et de design in Geneva. DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS (2021) won the Cinegrell First Look Award at this year’s Locarno Festival for its complexity, playfulness and its innovative and challenging storytelling. A VULGAR ADVENTURE is his feature debut.


Credits

Il faut fabriquer ses cadeaux Il faut fabriquer ses cadeaux (2021) Character: N/A
As snow falls over a city, people share secret tricks with each other. Like how to kiss somebody and make them disappear, or having thoughts which are unrecognizable to machines.
Brüder - Ein Familienfilm Brüder - Ein Familienfilm (2020) Character: N/A
After 20 years of separation, brothers Adrian and Valentin spend a week together. 32-year old Adrian lives with their parents and benefits from a disability pension. Valentin, barely older, seems to have found his autonomy. Brothers - A Family Film is a dizzying dive into a relationship as impossible as it is established, where violence and tenderness are one and the same.
Unrueh Unrueh (2022) Character: Factory Director Roulet
New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labor, she gets involved with the local anarchist movement.
Les bouches Les bouches (2024) Character: N/A
Two barrel organ players roam the streets of Juárez, a district of Mexico City. They play their music and ask passers-by for money, while a couple of tourists from Paris set up an insurance fraud...
De noche los gatos son pardos De noche los gatos son pardos (2023) Character: Valentin Tanören
A crew is shooting a libertine costume film in the countryside when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigates, the film shoot continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director’s lover, follows a promise and reaches the Mexican Pacific.



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