Tom Chomont Movies

Video Art by Tom Chomont

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

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

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

"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...

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.

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,...

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

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

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

Short experimental film made in 1994.

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

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

Echoes in time of a lost moment.

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

A film by Tom Chomont

Made in 1998. Short experimental film.

Made in 1994 with Clark Coleman. Short experimental film.

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...