Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
DirectingTomás 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 — Acting
Filmography — Crew
Olivia & the Clouds
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Short Stories About Loneliness
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The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
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Cumbia de Piedra
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Waiting for Godot
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The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
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Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
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Línea Confín
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Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
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The 1937 Haitian Massacre
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El Club de Chichiguas
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Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
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Can Love and Independence Coexist?
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Divine Comedy
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Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
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Midnight's Children
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Asterisco
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Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
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The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
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One of the most dangerous men in American history
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Where the Bees Sleep
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Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
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Floating Islands
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El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
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The science of skin color
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El Regreso al Planeta M
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The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
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The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
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Dante
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The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
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What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
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AstroLunar
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Malvao
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Who was Confucius?
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What is abstract expressionism?
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The Neuroscience of Imagination
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El Camino Interminable
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The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
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