Tom Vater

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January 17th, 2012 | Tags: ARD, Aung San Suu Kyi, Beitrag, Burma, Deutschland, Freedom Film Festival;, Kurzfilm, Marc Eberle, Myanmar, Tom Vater, Zaganar | Category: Burma | Leave a comment

Achan Neng Onnut, one of several tattoo masters featured in my recent book Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand’s spirit tattoos, Sak Yant, has posted a number of images of the shoot for two documentaries on the book.
Check out the images here.
Director Marc Eberle shot an 8 minute docu on Sacred [...]

January 15th, 2012 | Tags: Achan Neng Onnut, Aroon Thaewchatturat, arte TV, Asia, Bangkok, book, Die Zeit, documentary, Hans Kemp, James Nachtwey, Marc Eberle, Metropolis, photography, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Lard Yao Peter travels and tattoos. With long steel needles.
Peter learned his trade in Lard Yao Prison, also known as Klong Prem or the Bangkok Hilton, Thailand’s notoriously infamous jail, where he spent some time in the 1990s.
Spiegel TV has produced an interesting documentary on this extraordinary German. Obviously, the film is in German but [...]

January 15th, 2012 | Tags: Achan Neng Onnut, Andreas Nebeling, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, Bangkok Hilton, book, Die Zeit, Germany, Hans Kemp, heilige Tättowierungen, James Nachtwey, Klong Prem Prison, Lard Yao Peter, Marc Eberle, Meike Fries, photography, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, Spiegel TV, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World | Category: Germany, Thailand | Leave a comment

On a recent trip to Cambodia, I noticed that my first non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench is still being sold as a bootleg photocopy in Siem Reap bookshops.
I was browsing the shelves of a pirate DVD shop in Phnom Penh a couple days ago, when I found, much to my surprise, that The [...]

January 12th, 2012 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, Asia, Beyond the Pancake Trench, bootleg, Cambodia, CIA, documentary, drugs, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Laos, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Phnom Penh, pirate, Secret War, South East Asia, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War, writer | Category: Cambodia, Laos | Leave a comment

Film maker and long time collaborator Marc Eberle, has announced his new film project Rock Cambodia and is featured in a recent article in the Phnom Penh Post. This new feature documentary present the story of Srey Thy, the singer of The Cambodian Space Project, a Cambodia based music collective.
Read the full story here.
Watch [...]

January 1st, 2012 | Tags: 1960s, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Cambodia, Cambodian music, documentary, film director, film maker, Julien Poulson, Khmer, Marc Eberle, Phnom Penh Post, rock music, Srey Thy, The Cambodian Space Project, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

2011 proved to be a mad, mad year for me and I’d like to thank all the people who supported me over the past twelve months. Living it all was almost too much. Here’s to the great times this year.
The publication of Sacred Skin, the first book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, was a major milestone [...]

December 28th, 2011 | Tags: Ajan Neng Onnut, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Anne Rochat, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Austin von New, author Tom Vater, Bangkok Literary Festival, book, Cambodia, Cameron Cooper, Chris Taylor, CIA, Dasa Books, documentary, Hans Kemp, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Honey Bee - Puri, India, Interview, James Nachtwey, Lah Worawan Simaroj, Marc Eberle, Massimo Carlotto, Metal Postcard, non-fiction by Tom Vater, opium, photography, Puri, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, Secret War, South East Asia, Southeast Asia expert, Southeast Asia writer, tattoo, Thailand, The Devil's Road, The Devil's Road Blog, The Most Secret Place on Earth, TIME Magazine, Tom Vater, USA, Visionary World, writer, writer Asia, writer Tom Vater, Z Hotel | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Finally, the DVD for The Most Secret Place on Earth is out, about a year after the film surfaced on YouTube! There are some great extra, never before seen interviews with the film’s main characters but unfortunately the footage is all in German, as are the subtitles. Given that the film has garnered so much [...]

December 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, Asia, CIA, documentary, drugs, DVD, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Secret War, South East Asia, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War, writer | Category: Laos | Comments (2)

Check out the new website of German film director Marc Eberle, a long time collaborator who specializes in directing cutting-edge documentaries on Asian subjects.
Marc has covered human trafficking on the Indian subcontinent (Nepal’s Sold Out Daughters, 2001), the world’s greatest gathering of human beings, the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India (The Greatest Show on [...]

December 18th, 2011 | Tags: Asia, Cambodia, Cambodian Space project, CSP, director, documentary, film director, German, http://juliagoschke.com/, India, Julia Goschke, Julian Poulson, Kalash, Kalash - Daughters of the Hindukush, Khmer - Heart of Stone, Marc Eberle, Nepal, Nepal's Sold Out Daughters, Pakistan, Srey Thy, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Most Secret Place on Earth, The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), Tom Vater, Vietnam, website, www.marceberle.com | Category: Germany | Leave a comment

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September 12th, 2011 | Tags: Achan Neng Onnut, Aroon Thaewchatturat, arte, Asia, Bangkok, book, documentary, Hans Kemp, James Nachtwey, Marc Eberle, Metropolis, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, TV, Visionary World, writer | Category: France, Germany, Thailand | Leave a comment