Tom Chomont Movies

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

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...

"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...

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

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

Video Art by Tom Chomont

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

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....

Short experimental film made in 1994.

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

"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...

"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...

Made in 1998. Short experimental film.

“A portrait of Carla Liss, evoking the atmosphere of the old horror films we both loved.”

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

Video Art by Tom Chomont

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

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

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

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