Tom Vater

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September 24th, 2011 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, book, Die Zeit, documentary, Dokumentarfilm, Dokumentation, film, Heilige Tätowierung, James Nachtwey, photography, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, Tätowierung, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, tourism, Visionary World, writer, Zeitung | Category: Germany, Thailand | Leave a comment

I first visited Cambodia in 2001, on a research trip to find a story for a documentary on the country newly emerging from decades of civil war.
A year later, director Marc Eberle and myself were back, shooting The Khmer` Heart of Stone, the first feature length docu for which I wrote the screenplay. The [...]

September 8th, 2011 | Tags: Buch, Cambodia, documentary, Dokumentarfilm, DVD, film, Marc Eberle, regie, screenplay, screenplay writer, Steinernes Herz der Khmer, The Khmer Heart of Stone, Tom Vater, Trailer | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

The trailer of Camera Camera (2009), a documentary film by Malcolm Murray, about the nature and effect of mass tourism in Laos, offers an intriguing glimpse of the Land of the Million Elephants and the million backpackers that travel through it.
Who said the camera never lies, one might as oneself, as one looks at one [...]

September 5th, 2011 | Tags: Camera Camera, consumerism, documentary, documentation, exploitation, film, Laos, Malcolm Murray, orientalism, Tom Vater, tourism, travel, youth | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

The trailer for the first documentary film I worked on (screenplay and production manager), The Greatest Show on Earth, can now be viewed on director Marc Eberle’s website.
The 30 min documentary follows Alok Sharma, the top policeman in charge of the 2001 Maha Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of people on planet earth, ever!
Being involved in [...]

August 31st, 2011 | Tags: Alok Sharma, arte, ascetic, Author, Discovery, documentary, festival, film, Hinduism, Holy Man, India, kumbh mela, Marc Eberle, pilgrimage, production manager, sadhu, sannyasi, screenplay, The Greatest Show on Earth, Tom Vater, writer | Category: India | Leave a comment

Swedish photographer Gerhard Joren has produced a short documentary on the birth of Bangkok-based band Pussy & The Learjets.
The two and a half minute film documents the Rock’n’Roll band’s live debut at The Overstay on January 15th.
The four piece, formed in late 2010, is currently playing dates around Bangkok, Thailand and will record a first [...]

January 18th, 2011 | Tags: 2011, Asia, Bangkok, debut concert, documentary, film, garage punk, Gerhard Joren, live concert, photographer Gerhard Joren, punk rock, punk rock documentary, punk rock movie', Pussy & The Learjets, Thailand, underground music | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment