Tom Zarzecki

ToM Zarzecki is a filmmaker & music artist from Redford Michigan, a small suburb bordering Detroit. He began experimenting with filmmaking in his youth on a VCR camcorder his father bought off of a co-worker. Making stop motion action figure movies as well as horror and action films with his friends he aspired to be an actor/director but became more focused on music while playing in punk bands in high school. At age 20 while tripping on LSD with his band mate, watching Pink Flamingos as well as a tape of an entire local bowling alley full of clowns, ToM decided he wanted to experiment with making weird movies again. As he drove home he had ideas that would manifest into the no budget film "Telepathic Telephones". After being released from two years of probation for malicious destruction of property, he moved to Chicago where he ended up attending Tribeca Flashpoint Academy. During that time he filmed the Mockumentary "The Curse of the Death Cat", thinking it was funny to ask family and friends about his death from 14 years previous. The film was well regarded in the underground Ypsilanti & Detroit music scene. After moving back to the Detroit area, he began what became a disaster of a process filming the art-house science fiction narrative "Telepathic Telephones". In 2013 ToM moved to Los Angeles California to pursue filmmaking opportunities. He reformed his band Death Cat in 2014. The band continues to perform and tour. From 2016-2018 he produced, directed and acted in "Psychedelic Psychopaths", another art-house narrative film. In 2017 with Oshka Kuwalski he started the Planet 9 Film Festival for underground cinema & art. ToM also writes & illustrates comic books which tie into the Death Cat Universe of music, movies & live performance. He is a vegan for the animals, practitioner of Buddhist principles and an environmentalist. His work is described as surreal, horror, comic bookish, psychedelic and abstract.