Tom Chomont Movies

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

"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...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

Video Art by Tom Chomont

"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...

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.

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

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 Winged...

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

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...

Video Art by Tom Chomont

Made in 1998. Short experimental film.

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.