Tom Oesch is a Swiss music video director

Music video director

A music video director is driven by a given music track. These are called music videos and are then used as promotional tools for popular music singles...

 who works in Hollywood, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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Biography

Oesch grew up in Rebstein

Rebstein

Rebstein is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.-Geography:Rebstein has an area, , of . Of this area, 60.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.9% is forested...

, a small rural town in eastern Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, as the son of a doctor. After attending a midnight screening of the movie Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, and Bob Peck...

in 1993 he decided that he wanted to make movies himself. He went home and shot his first short-film We Are Chips with his father's old camcorder

Camcorder

A camcorder is an electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into one unit. Equipment manufacturers do not seem to have strict guidelines for the term usage...

. The short went on to win some local awards and was eventually shown on national television. He was only 14 years old.

After high school he moved to Hollywood, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, in 2000 to pursue his dream. He attended the film program at the prestigious USC School of Cinematic Arts

USC School of Cinematic Arts

The USC School of Cinematic Arts, until 2006 named the School of Cinema-Television , is a film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of...

 where he wrote and directed several short-films, including the two award-winning shorts Echo (2003) and Sailing for Madagascar

Sailing for Madagascar

Sailing for Madagascar is a 2004 short film, written and directed by Tom Oesch, and starring Aimee Teegarden. The film deals with the racial tensions growing in the United States during World War II...

(2004).

Oesch graduated with a BA in Cinema-Television in 2004. Only months later he directed his first music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for the alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Speakers of the House.

Oesch's work has won awards in both Europe and the United States.

He resides in Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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