Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
- Directing
- March 2, 1987 · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Biography
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat (b. 1987, Santo Domingo) is a storyteller from the Dominican Republic. Working primarily on video, animation and drawing. He was granted a full year scholarship at Fabrica, Benetton's Design Research center, in Treviso, Italy in 2013. Tomás received his BFA in Art and Media at Parsons, the New School of Design in 2010. And his AA degree in fine arts, at Altos de Chavón, in 2008. Pichardo's work has hints of magic realism. Evoking the colorful, surreal and sometimes disorienting experience of growing up in the Caribbean. His world is personal and intimate, with characters full of colors and textures, drawn into situations outside of their comfort zone. Recent solo exhibitions include CasaQuien (DR), Centro de la Imagen (DR) and Fabrica Features (Lisbon, Portugal). And he has had work included in group exhibitions at the Triennale di Milano (Italy), Museum for Contemporary Art, (México) and Annecy Animation Film Festival (France).
Known for
Filmography
- Out of Date Defences · Director
- When did we start using passports? · Director
- Olivia & the Clouds · Director, Writer
- Roots · Supervising Animation Director
- One of the most dangerous men in American history · Director
- The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Can Love and Independence Coexist? · Storyboard Artist, Animation
- How to Find Creative Work · Director
- The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp · Director, Storyboard Artist
- What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion · Director, Animation
- Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator · Director
- The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire · Director, Storyboard Artist
- The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire · Director, Storyboard Artist
- El Club de Chichiguas · Director, Screenplay
- El Regreso al Planeta M · Niño, Screenplay
- Asterisco · Director, Writer
- The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Short Stories About Loneliness · Director
- Divine Comedy · Animation, Storyboard Artist
- The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god · Animation, Storyboard Artist
- Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality · Animation, Director
- Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler? · Director, Animation
- Midnight's Children · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Why You'll Never Find the Right Person · Director
- Waiting for Godot · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Hypervigilance · Director
- The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder · Storyboard Artist, Director
- The 1937 Haitian Massacre · Director, Storyboard Artist
- You Are Not What You Earn · Director
- How Can I Be More Normal? · Director
- El Camino Interminable · Director, Screenplay
- How to Travel in your Mind · Director
- Why We Go Cold on Our Partners · Director
- The Neuroscience of Imagination · Animation, Director
- Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present? · Director, Editing
- Is graffiti art? Or vandalism? · Storyboard Artist, Animation
- What is abstract expressionism? · Animation, Storyboard Artist
- The science of skin color · Director, Animation
- El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón · Director, Screenplay
- Who was Confucius? · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma? · Animation, Storyboard Artist
- Malvao · Editing, Director
- Cumbia de Piedra · Director, Screenplay
- Floating Islands · Director, Screenplay
- Dante · Screenplay, Director
- AstroLunar · Screenplay, Producer
- Línea Confín · Ing. Badessi, Animation Director
- Where the Bees Sleep · Director, Writer