Tom Chomont Movies

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, Summer 1981.)

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

"I intended to make a film about food and spiritual nourishment, but this was punctuated by two visits from a friend (upon entering the us army and the birth of his daughter)..."

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

Video Art by Tom Chomont

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.

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

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

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 the 'The Sufis' by Indries Shaf.

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

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

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.

Short video by Tom Chomont, features Robert Beavers and his mother during the filming of Pitcher of Colored Light. Consists of sections titled Bathed in Light, Going For a Ride. Mother Garden, Robert's Mother's Flowers, Time Taken, and Brief Visit.

First part of a trilogy.

Third part of a trilogy.

A Berlin diary.

Made in 1994 with Clark Coleman. Short experimental film.

Made in 1990. Short experimental film.

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

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