Tom Chomont Movies

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.

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

First part of a trilogy.

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

"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 1998. Short experimental film.

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

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...

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

Video Art by Tom Chomont

"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 Eric de Kuyper.

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.

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

Echoes in time of a lost moment.

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

A film by Tom Chomont

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.

Made in 1994 with Clark Coleman. Short experimental film.