Tom Chomont Movies

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure is a film cycle by American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers. It consists of...

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Beavers was 18 and 19 years old, now forms the opening to his film cycle, “My Hand Outstretched to the...

Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

“I usually avoid the term ‘film poem,’ because it was overused in the ‘40s and ‘50s. But somehow it fits Phases of The...

Lijn II is a tiny portrait of a friend made on a contact printer from scraps of a film that was lost

Whimsical variations suggested by the minute cracks in a print of Leonardo's famous portrait.

Video Art by Tom Chomont

"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama...

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

Third part of a trilogy.

A portrait of polymorphous lovers that references the Medieval parable of Les Noces du Roi et Reine and the marriage of opposites... dichotomy...

Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

Short video by Tom Chomont, features Robert Beavers and his mother during the filming of Pitcher of Colored Light. Consists of sections titled Bathed...

“Approximately thirty images comprise Oblivion. Most obsessively repeat themselves. Although the images appear to be solarized, the film was...

Short experimental film made in 1994.

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.