Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat (born 1987) is an animation storyteller from the Dominican Republic. His animations have been screened at Annecy, the Quirino Awards in Tenerife, Havana, and Pictoplasma, among others. Pichardo-Espaillat's work carries traces of magical realism, evoking the colorful, surreal and, sometimes, disorienting experience of the Caribbean. His world is intimate, with characters full of colors and textures, drawn into situations outside of their comfort zone.
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat, nato nel 1987, è uno storyteller dell'animazione della Repubblica Dominicana. Le sue animazioni sono state proiettate ad Annecy, ai Quirino Awards di Tenerife, all'Avana, al Pictoplasma di Berlino e a vari altri festival. Il lavoro di Pichardo-Espaillat sa di realismo magico ed evoca l'atmosfera colorata, surreale e, a volte, disorientante dei Caraibi. Il suo è un mondo intimo, con personaggi pieni di colori e trame, trascinati in situazioni al di fuori della loro zona di comfort.
Filmografia
2024 Olivia & Las Nubes
2023 One of the Most Dangerous Men in American History
2022 The Rebel Radio That Brought Down a War Criminal
2021 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
2020 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 The Life, Legacy & Assassination of an African Revolutionary
2019 Why Should You Read Dante's 'Divine Comedy'?
2019 Why Should You Read 'Midnight's Children'?
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 The Nutritionist
2018 Why Should You Read 'Waiting for Godot'?
2018 The Psychology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
2018 Ugly History: The 1937 Haitian Massacre
2017 El camino interminable
2016 The Neuroscience of Imagination
2016 Is Graffiti Art? Or Vandalism?
2016 What Is Abstract Expressionism?
2016 The Science of Skin Color
2016 El vendeador de muchachas de cartón
2015 Who Was Confucius?
2015 Solid, Liquid, Gas and... Plasma?
2015 Malvao
2014 Cumbia de piedra
2013 Floating Islands
2013 Dante
2012 AstroLunar
2011 Línea confín
