Tom Chomont Movies

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

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

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

A film by Tom Chomont

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

Short experimental film made in 1994.

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

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.”

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.

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...

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...

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

Short video by Tom Chomont, features Robert Beavers and his mother during the filming of Pitcher of Colored Light. Consists of sections titled Bathed...

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

Short experimental film made in 1994.

"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...

"I, Prolugue, II, The Angel Morpheus/The Major Arcana, III, Jeu de la main. The title refers to (a) quote attributed to Stan Brakhage regarding the...

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