TOC: A Novel
By Steve Tomasula
with Direction and Design by Stephen Farrell and Steve Tomasula,
Animations by Matt Lavoy and Chris Jara,
Sound Engineering by Chris Jara.
TOC is a multimedia epic about time: the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world. An evocative fairy tale in a steampunk body, TOC is a breath-taking visual novel, an assemblage of text, film, music, photography, the spoken word, animation, and painting. It is the story of a man who digs a hole so deep he can hear the past, a woman who climbs a ladder so high she can see the future, as well as others trapped in the clockless, timeless time of a surgery waiting room: God’s time. Theirs is an imagined history of people who are fixed in the past, those who have no word for the future, and those who live out their days oblivious to both.
TOC: A Novel by Steve Tomasula
with Direction and Design by Stephen Farrell and Steve Tomasula,
Animations by Matt Lavoy and Chris Jara,
Sound Engineering by Chris Jara.
Chronos “TOC” film
Images and Design by Stephen Farrell
Animation by Matt Lavoy
Narration by Maria Tomasula
with Michelle Grabner, Christian Jara, and Steve Tomasula
Music by Chris Pielak
Logos
Music by Paul Johnson
Narration by Christian Jara
Video by Zoe Bellof, excerpted from her installation
“The Influencing Machine of Miss Natalija A.”
“Forming the Island” and “Final Journey” animations by Tim Guthrie
additional music by Jason Lahr.
Tic-Toc Island paintings by Maria Tomasula
“Every Body is a Time Keeper” animation by Dan Warner
with Eric Satie’s “Gymnopédies, Six Gnossiennes: I”
“In A Beginning,” “Time Explodes,” “The End Was Catastrophic,” and “Queen in Exile” animations by Christian Jara.
