Movies: Tom Chomont

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. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike K...

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 Distance and Sightless Measure." It is a highly stylized work of self-portraiture, depicting filmmaker a...

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

“Approximately thirty images comprise Oblivion. Most obsessively repeat themselves. Although the images appear to be solarized, the film was actually contact-printed, combining high contrast black and white negative with a colour positive of the same...

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

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

First part of a trilogy....

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

Echoes in time of a lost moment....

Third part of a trilogy....

“I usually avoid the term ‘film poem,’ because it was overused in the ‘40s and ‘50s. But somehow it fits Phases of The Moon; it is a film poem and nothing else. A small, miniature film poem, a jewel, if the word masterpiece is too stuffy.” (Jonas Mek...

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

"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 of emotionally charged recollections of strange relatives and estranged siblings, staged recreations...

A film by Tom Chomont...

A Berlin diary....

Video Art by Tom Chomont...

Video Art by Tom Chomont...

Short experimental film made in 1994....

Made in 1998. Short experimental film....

Made in 1994 with Clark Coleman. Short experimental film....