Tom Vick

Roles: Special Guest

Tom Vick is the curator of film at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art. Formerly Vick was the coordinator of film programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has worked as a consultant for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and served on the juries of the Korean Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Filmfest DC, and the Smithsonian African-American Film Festival. He has contributed essays to Directory of World Cinema: Japan, Film Festival Yearbook, Asian Geographic, and other publications. He is the author of Asian Cinema: A Field Guide (2007) and Time and Place are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki (2015). He is the executive producer on Tsai Ming-liang’s film Abiding Nowhere (2024), and contributed a video essay to the Blu-ray release of Shohei Imamura’s film Warm Water Under a Red Bridge in 2023.

2025 Program(s):
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine