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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Short experimental film made in 1994.

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

"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...

Video Art by Tom Chomont

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.