Tom Chomont Movies

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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....

Filmed when Beavers was 18–19, this self-portrait depicts him and Gregory J. Markopoulos in their Swiss apartment. A diary of domestic life, it...

Short video by Tom Chomont, features Robert Beavers and his mother during the filming of Pitcher of Colored Light. Consists of sections titled Bathed...

With abda I was processing black and white film myself in buckets . . . I wanted to destroy my own image." – T.C. (An interview in Afterimage,...

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...

First part of a trilogy.

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

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

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

“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.

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

Echoes in time of a lost moment.

Third part of a trilogy.

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.