Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Directing
Born March 2, 1987 · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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).
Directed (38)
Olivia & the Clouds
2025
One of the most dangerous men in American history
2023
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
2022
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
2021
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
2021
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
2021
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
2021
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
2020
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
2020
El Club de Chichiguas
2020
El Regreso al Planeta M
2020
Asterisco
2020
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
2020
Short Stories About Loneliness
2019
Divine Comedy
2019
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
2019
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
2019
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
2019
Midnight's Children
2019
Waiting for Godot
2018
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
2018
The 1937 Haitian Massacre
2018
El Camino Interminable
2017
The Neuroscience of Imagination
2016
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
2016
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
2016
What is abstract expressionism?
2016
The science of skin color
2016
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
2016
Who was Confucius?
2015
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
2015
Malvao
2015
Cumbia de Piedra
2014
Floating Islands
2013
Dante
2013
AstroLunar
2012
Línea Confín
2011
Where the Bees Sleep