Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 2, 1987 (age 39)
- Birthplace
- 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
Olivia & the Clouds
El Club de Chichiguas
Línea Confín
Floating Islands
El Regreso al Planeta M
Dante
Midnight's Children
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
The 1937 Haitian Massacre
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
Asterisco
Filmography
Where the Bees Sleep
Movie · Director
When did we start using passports?
Movie · Director
Out of Date Defences
Movie · Director
Olivia & the Clouds
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One of the most dangerous men in American history
Movie · Director
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
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Moreno Mío
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Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
Movie · Director
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
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The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
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Can Love and Independence Coexist?
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How to Find Creative Work
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Me Asomé al Sol
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When the Sun
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El Club de Chichiguas
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The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
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Asterisco
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The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
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El Regreso al Planeta M
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The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
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Midnight's Children
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Short Stories About Loneliness
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Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
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Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
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The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
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Divine Comedy
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Why You'll Never Find the Right Person
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The 1937 Haitian Massacre
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The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
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Waiting for Godot
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Hypervigilance
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When Someone we love has died
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El Camino Interminable
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How to Travel in your Mind
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How Can I Be More Normal?
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You Are Not What You Earn
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El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
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The science of skin color
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What is abstract expressionism?
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Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
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The Neuroscience of Imagination
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Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
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Why We Go Cold on Our Partners
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Malvao
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Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
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Who was Confucius?
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Cumbia de Piedra
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Dante
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Floating Islands
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AstroLunar
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Línea Confín
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