Tom Chomont Movies

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.

"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 inspired by reading about John Millais' painting Ophelia.

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

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

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

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.

"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...

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.

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,...

Made in 1994 with Clark Coleman. Short experimental film.

Made in 1990. Short experimental film.

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 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...

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

"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...

"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...

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