Tom Chomont Movies

Portrait of the American experimental filmmaker Tom Chomont, who resided in Eruope from 1969-1975, before returning to New York.

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

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.

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 film by Tom Chomont

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

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

"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...

For R. B. and G. M. Filmed in Diesntis, Switzerland.

A Berlin diary.

"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...

Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White

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

Short experimental film made in 1994.

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

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

First part of a trilogy.

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

Echoes in time of a lost moment.