Tom Chomont Movies

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.

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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,...

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

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

Third part of a trilogy.

Video Art by 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 inspired by reading about John Millais' painting Ophelia.

Video Art by Tom Chomont

Short experimental film made in 1994.

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

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