Tom Chomont Movies

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

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

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.

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....

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...

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

Video Art by 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...

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

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

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

Short experimental film made in 1994.

"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...

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

"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...

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,...

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

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

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

A film by Tom Chomont