Norman Chow

Norman Chow Tong-Sing (Cantonese: 周東陞) was a Hong Kong avant-garde poet, dramatist, animator, writer, producer, director, and photographer, known for founding Robot Probe Productions and Cri-Kee Pictures. The father of actor and voice actor Brandon Chow, he was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound.

His films, few in number, are known to be carefully edited and extremely brief. Aside from that, his works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground theatre, countercultural essays, to the and "expanded" cinema.

Many critics view him as one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Hong Kong. He has been cited as an influence on various Hong Kong filmmakers from the 1970s onward.

Bio
When Chow was 22, he studied set design at the Victoria Peak School of Cinema and Art. He joined the Animation Society at the Victoria Peak School of Art while he was studying there, it was within the society that he began to experiment with different styles and techniques of filmmaking.

Between 11 and 30 January 1930, Chow founded his production companies Robot Probe Productions and Cri-Kee Pictures (now known as Cri-Kee Pictures). On 24 May 1983, Chow resigned from Cri-Kee Pictures and still worked at Robot Probe until his retirement in 2003. He died from bladder cancer on 23 May 2004.