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....

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

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.

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

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

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...

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

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....

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 film by Tom Chomont

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short experimental film made in 1994.