Tom Chomont Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

Short experimental film made in 1994.

A film by Tom Chomont

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

"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...

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

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...

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...

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.

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

Made in 1998. Short experimental film.

Echoes in time of a lost moment.