Carl Tomich is an Australian documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, editor, photographer and YouTuber from Perth, Western Australia. His work centres on people, places and communities encountered through travel, with an emphasis on direct experience rather than distant observation.
Before focusing on long-form documentary work, Carl produced independent videos and music projects in Australia. His move to Berlin placed him inside one of Europe’s most active street-performance communities. Rather than filming that world only from behind the camera, he began performing in it under the name The Neigh Kid Horse, playing guitar in a horse mask and developing a recognisable character on Berlin’s streets.
That experience became the foundation of Busking for Berlin. The documentary followed the realities of attempting to survive through street performance while meeting musicians and performers who used public space as both a workplace and a stage. Contemporary coverage by Perth’s X-Press Magazine described Carl as a filmmaker and musician who had spent two years busking in Berlin and documenting the experience. A 2014 report in the German newspaper taz also described the Australian horse-mask performer, his street act and his connection to Busking for Berlin.
Carl later returned to Berlin’s busking world in Busk Life, released in 2025. The follow-up revisited the community with the perspective of time, continued travel and the difficulty of sustaining a creative life.
His more recent work has expanded into documentary-led travel filmmaking. Through Carl Travels, he produces films and practical videos about destinations, long-term living abroad, local businesses, transport, costs and the less polished realities of travel. He also makes filmmaking and creator-gear reviews drawn from equipment he uses in the field.
In 2025, while filming in Hanoi, Carl documented severe flooding across the Vietnamese capital. VnExpress published a feature about his work and credited a series of flood photographs to him. A second VnExpress report quoted him about the disruption the weather caused to his planned YouTube filming.
Carl continues to work across Asia and Europe. Current projects include travel stories, a martial-arts documentary in production and interviews connected with Croatia and the Croatian diaspora. These interviews explore citizenship by descent, returning or moving to Croatia, family identity and the experiences of people rebuilding a connection with the country.
