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TOMA

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About Me

http://www1.webng.com/themesser/ - A (old) website with some more works
http://www.neocha.com/toma - VideoBlog on a chinese blog
On FaceBook

OTHER WORKS


LANDsCAPE 2007 - live video and sound performance
running time: ~15 minutes
Originally 18 minutes, this live performance was presented twice to the public during the eArts international electronic art festival of Shanghai in October 2007 at the SHOAC. I expressed my fantasist view of the universe, with a twist of science fiction mainly inspired by Aronosfky's The Fountain. Based around the idea that all the elements of the universe contain in itself the whole universe, like an infinite loop, the sphere would embody the shape of it all, from the atoms and the cells to the planets. Whether the creation is the result of a natural process or an artificial experiment, it gives birth to landscapes and living forms that follow the rules of this endless loop. In this perspective, the word "create" wouldn’t mean anything, since nothing is created, everything already exists.
ASIAN FACE 2007 - C27filmstudio
running time: ~52 minutes
Chinese/Korean/English w/ chinese and english subtitles
Asian Face is a 52 minutes documentary directed by Tony Chen and rewrited/edited by myself. 3 asian guys (a Chinese, a Korean, and a Japanese) working in Shanghai as photographer or director explain their point of view about several subjects, family, money, love, their aims and their dreams. Indeed this movie talks about the identity of the asian people, it's mainly Tony Chen's personal quest that is expressed through all those images, the quest of a 30 years old man looking for the meaning of his life spoiled by western culture and money hunger.
(15 min. extract - introducing Korean and Chinese guys)

MIND THE GAP 2006 - ArtisanHK prod
running time: ~12 minutes
french w/ english subtitles
HongKong, 2005. A personal vision of the modern society through the most international city in Asia. The rise of the modern empire, the loss of identity coming with.
RELATIVE MECHANICS 2005/2006 - Guingart virus 24h live performance in the streets, with interactive videos and sounds, using sensors and MaxMSP. The passers-by make the visual and sound landscapes change, hudge screens invade the streets, strange machines make unfamiliar sounds.

MUSIC WORKS
I also (used to) make music; you can listen to my crappy masterpieces here:

My Interests

I-MADE MTVs
IGO - It's no easy
(ModernSky records 2007)

downloadable version here
The Kills - My passion is accurate
(Domino Records/Radar Festival 2006)

Headman - On and on
(Gomma records / Relish records 2006)
co-directed with Pierre Prieur

On Slices DVD Issue 3-06
Subrosa - Grace
(autoproduction 2005)
Official festival selection:
Oblique productions label festival 2006 (Pau)
Cronde - Dom & Roland experience (2006)

Gravenhurst - The diver
(Warp records 2004)
co-directed with Pierre Prieur

Jimmy Edgar - Is this a real city ?
(Warp records 2005)
co-directed with Pierre Prieur

Creative Review - June 2005 (with DVD)
CR Vs WARP WINNERS "[...]"Our first line of approach was to make something absurd." The pair have managed this quite admirably with this bizarre tale of a woman seeking solace in her tank of floating, coloured balls. Several techniques are skillfully used in the film: from the way the main caracter is "projected" onto the interior of her flat as she moves around it, to the animated cogs and wheels that punctuate her trip to the park to change her blue ball into a red one. She needs the red ball to match up with the other ones within the mysterious metal object she keeps in her flat. Of course."
This video has also been displayed during Territoires electroniques 2005 and at the Portobello film festival 2005
Korozion mimetik - music remix by T12 (2004)

Official festival selections:
Rencontres Audiovisuelles 2005 (Lille)
Aubagne film festival 2005

Heroes: