Tom Chomont Movies

A film by Tom Chomont

Third part of a trilogy.

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.

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

"The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

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

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

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

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

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

Echoes in time of a lost moment.

"De eevwigheid duurt een oogwenk./ De ti jd duurt maar door." – A. Roland Holet. "This film is in several short sections. Most are set in a...

Made in 1997. Short experimental film.

Video Art by Tom Chomont

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

"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...

Lijn II is a tiny portrait of a friend made on a contact printer from scraps of a film that was lost

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

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