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.

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

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....

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...

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

“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.

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

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

Made in 1990. Short experimental film.

Short experimental film made in 1994.

Video Art by Tom Chomont

"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 1998. Short experimental film.

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

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