For many years he worked as a free lance writer and journalist for publications such as Dagbladet, Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift, Backstage, and for NRK, the national Norwegian broadcasting coperation. He worked for some years as a copy writer for a small design agency in Porsgrunn, onezero designagency. These days he works as a web site editor, writer, and with marketing for the Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival.

After having made a number of documentaries, music videos and short movies, he is more and more turning his interests to video art and installation works, a field he is also lecturing on thru his involvement with Porsgrunn kunstforening.

As a performing artist he has done several stage productions, notably “Roald Amundsens vei” as part of the improv-performance ensemble Hornorkesteret; readings and poetry readings for among others Ny Musikk Trondheim (“Amerika”), and collaborated for several years with double bass player Michael Francis Duch on a performance with texts and music by John Cage. He also plays one string violin in the drone-noise duo Two Limited with Lasse Marhaug.

Tom Løberg Hovinbøle lives in Porsgrunn, Norway.


Pastiche Films
Pastiche Films is a film- and video production company run by Tom Løberg Hovinbøle. It is presently situated in Porsgrunn, Norway, after spending its first years Trondheim. It was started in 2001 for the production of the documentary NOR NOISE. The company is based upon the esthetical ideas of the french nouvelle vougue of the 1960s, and the underground film production mentality; no money in the budget doesn’t mean no film can be produced. Since its initiation, PF has produced a number of short films, documentaries, music videos and lately, video installation works.