Tom Chomont Movies

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

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

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...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.

"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...

"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...

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.

Short experimental film made in 1994.

"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

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

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

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