Known For
Directing
Died
Jun 28, 2010
Credits
49 titles
Tom Chomont
Biography
Tom Chomont was a prominent figure of the New York underground film world, and made films for over 40 years. Tom Chomont was a longtime HIV and Parkinson’s Disease survivor and sadly died on June 28, 2010. “Tom Chomont’s films are at once highly poetic and carefully controlled personal statements, and so private both in form and subject matter that they become almost hermetic…the instability of human existence, the poles of all -encompassing imagination on the one hand and nothingness and death on the other, are the notions underlying these works.” – Fred Camper From 1962 through 1989, Tom Chomont made over 40 films. All but two of his films are silent and all are short, ranging from less than 1 minute to 16 minutes. Perhaps, the subtitle of his film Phases of the Moon best characterizes his film work: The Parapsychology of Everyday Life. His films, often portraits of friends, are a lyric evocation of the ordinary world, but at the same time they bear witness to an unabashedly spiritual and sexual parallel universe. His incomparable technique of offsetting color positive and high contrast black and white negative creates a subtly beautiful and richly evocative, otherworldly aura. Since 1990, he has worked exclusively in video. The videos are hard-edged and raw. While many center around explicit s&m imagery, they go beyond the performative aspects of sadomasochistic practice and become an entrée to a transcendent and philosophical other world.
Known For
Filmography
Mother's Day
Director
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
Himself
Early Monthly Segments
Tom
Himself
Panic Bodies
Twilight
Director
Birth of a Nation
Self
Aquarium
Director
Spider Jan.16.91
Director
Committed
Additional Photography
Razor Head
Director
Joe's Maison
Director
Minor Revisions
Director
Earth
Director
Lover
Space Time Studies
Director
The Heavens
Director
abda/Rebirth
Director
Re: Incarnation
Director
Lijn II
Director
Research
Director
Love Objects
Director
Portret
Director
Aria
Director
Ophelia
Director
The Cat Lady
Director
Oblivion
Director
Untitled
Director
A Persian Rug
Director
Gloria in the Glass
Director
Epilog/Siam
Director
Phases of the Moon: The Parapsychology of Everyday Life
Director
Spiracle
Jabbok
Director
The Mirror Garden
Director
Morpheus In Hell
Director
Galaxie
Self
Mona Lysa
Director
Anthony
Director
Flames
Director
Night Blossoms
Director
Storm Warning
Director
Inner Sanctum
Director
Head Shot
Director
Penguin Pool
Director
A Faustian Knot
Director
The Cat Music
Director
Wizard of Light
Director
The Hidden Staircase
Director