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....

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....

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.

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,...

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

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...

Video Art by Tom Chomont

"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...

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

"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...

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

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

"The first experimental films I saw were mostly trance films or reactions to trance films. [My] first films, like Anthony (1966), are rather like...

Video Art by Tom Chomont

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

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.

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