Tom Chomont Movies

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

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

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

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

Echoes in time of a lost moment.

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

Video Art by Tom Chomont

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...

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

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

Made in 1994 with Clark Coleman. Short experimental film.

Short experimental film made in 1994.

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

"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...

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,...

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

The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by "La Maison Des Mortes" by Guillaume Apollinaire. After...

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.