Tom Chomont

Twilight (1998)

Video Art by Tom Chomont ...

Aquarium (1994)

Short experimental film made in 1994. ...

Spider Jan.16.91 (1994)

Short experimental film made in 1994. ...

Razor Head (1984)

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance. ...

Joe's Maison (1984)

The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by "La Maison Des Mortes" by Guillaume Apollinaire. After filming Joe destroyed the paintings and closed his gallery, Shekhina, where the paintings were filmed. ...

Minor Revisions (1979)

"I intended to make a film about food and spiritual nourishment, but this was punctuated by two visits from a friend (upon entering the us army and the birth of his daughter)... ...

Earth (1978)

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

Space Time Studies (1977)

"De eevwigheid duurt een oogwenk./ De ti jd duurt maar door." – A. Roland Holet. "This film is in several short sections. Most are set in a single location or 'space'; the editing introduces a temporal element into that space. In the third section, for ...

The Heavens (1977)

"The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's Vitruvian Man. ...

abda/Rebirth (1975)

With abda I was processing black and white film myself in buckets . . . I wanted to destroy my own image." – T.C. (An interview in Afterimage, Summer 1981. ...

Lijn II (1972)

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

Love Objects (1971)

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

Aria (1970)

For R. B. and G. M. Filmed in Diesntis, Switzerland. ...

Portret (1970)

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper. ...

The Cat Lady (1969)

"A portrait of Carla Liss, evoking the atmosphere of the old horror films we both loved. ...

Ophelia (1969)

A portrait inspired by reading about John Millais' painting Ophelia. ...

Oblivion (1969)

"Approximately thirty images comprise Oblivion. Most obsessively repeat themselves. Although the images appear to be solarized, the film was actually contact-printed, combining high contrast black and white negative with a colour positive of the same image ...

Gloria in the Glass (1969)

1 minute, color, silent 16mm ...

A Persian Rug (1969)

The film frame sometimes seems to function as a rug-like rectangle into or onto which the lover steps. Filmed in Orselina, Switzerland after reading the 'The Sufis' by Indries Shaf. ...

Epilog/Siam (1968)

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold. ...

Phases of the Moon: The Parapsychology of Everyday Life (1968)

"I usually avoid the term 'film poem,' because it was overused in the '40s and '50s. But somehow it fits Phases of The Moon; it is a film poem and nothing else. A small, miniature film poem, a jewel, if the word masterpiece is too stuffy. ...

The Mirror Garden (1967)

A romantic and lyric study of a young friend and readings he encouraged, especially Mallarmé. ...

Jabbok (1967)

The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok. ...

Morpheus In Hell (1967)

"I, Prolugue, II, The Angel Morpheus/The Major Arcana, III, Jeu de la main. The title refers to (a) quote attributed to Stan Brakhage regarding the avant-garde artist: 'Orpheus has been too long in Hell.' Part II alludes both to the sixth strophe of the Th ...

Jabbok (1967)

The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok. ...

Mona Lysa (1966)

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

Anthony (1966)

"The first experimental films I saw were mostly trance films or reactions to trance films. [My] first films, like Anthony (1966), are rather like trance films; that's part of the reason I didn't think of them as my own. ...

Flames (1965)

Night Blossoms (1965)

"I would say that the films of Mike Kuchar interest me very much. Also, some footage by a young film-maker in Boston, Tom Chomont, his footage (unedited) for Night Blossoms. I was particularly impressed with Mr. Chomont's footage because it reminded me o ...

Early Monthly Segments (2003)

Filmed when Beavers was 18–19, this self-portrait depicts him and Gregory J. Markopoulos in their Swiss apartment. A diary of domestic life, it transforms everyday objects and intimate details into a charged meditation on love, memory, and desire. ...

Tom (2002)

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

Panic Bodies (1998)

"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 of emotionally charged recollections of strange relatives and estranged siblings, staged recreations of fa ...

Birth of a Nation (1997)

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own "nation of cinema," a vital ...

Spiracle (1967)

Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker's sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos. ...

Galaxie (1966)

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. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, ...