Tom Chomont

Tom
Chomont

““Chomont’s films offer a lyric depiction of the ordinary world, but at the same time reveal an unabashedly spiritual and sexualized parallel universe. His incomparable technique of offsetting color positive and high contrast black-and-white negative creates a subtly beautiful, otherworldly aura.” Jim Hubbard”

At the intersection of eroticism, mysticism, and the everyday one finds Tom Chomont. Chomont completed approximately 40 short films between 1962 and 1989. He suffered from Parkinson’s during the last ...

Films

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    DVD Program 6: Mother's Day, Bathed in Light, Going For a Ride, Mother Garden, Robert's Mother's Flowers, Time Taken, Brief Visit
    Experimental

    DVD Program 6: Mother's Day, Bathed in Light, Going For a Ride, Mother Garden, Robert's Mother's Flowers, Time Taken, Brief Visit
    Tom Chomont

    color and b/w, silent and sound
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
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    DVD Program 3: Aquarium, The Cat Lady,  Faustian Knot, Jabbok tinted, Jabbok, Oblivion, Razorhead, Jabbok tinted, Sadistic Self-Portrait, Ring of Fire, Inner Sanctum, Scott's Studio
    Experimental

    DVD Program 3: Aquarium, The Cat Lady, Faustian Knot, Jabbok tinted, Jabbok, Oblivion, Razorhead, Jabbok tinted, Sadistic Self-Portrait, Ring of Fire, Inner Sanctum, Scott's Studio
    Tom Chomont

    color and b/w, silent and sound
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
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    DVD Program 4: Dancing in the Street, Fluctuations
    Experimental

    DVD Program 4: Dancing in the Street, Fluctuations
    Tom Chomont

    color, sound
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
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    DVD Program 5: Dog Diary 1, Dog Diary 2, Dog Diary 3, Real Dog, Real Dog 2
    Experimental

    DVD Program 5: Dog Diary 1, Dog Diary 2, Dog Diary 3, Real Dog, Real Dog 2
    Tom Chomont

    color, sound
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
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    DVD Program 1
    Experimental

    DVD Program 1
    Tom Chomont

    color and b/w, silent and sound, 50 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
    • Body
    • Erotic
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Night Blossoms
    Experimental

    Night Blossoms
    Tom Chomont

    16mm, color, silent, 4.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Flames
    Experimental

    Flames
    Tom Chomont

    16mm, color and b/w, sound on separate reel(s), 6 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Anthony

    Anthony
    Tom Chomont

    16mm, color, silent, 10 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Mona Lysa
    Experimental

    Mona Lysa
    Tom Chomont

    16mm, color, silent, 3 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists

Biography

At the intersection of eroticism, mysticism, and the everyday one finds Tom Chomont. Chomont completed approximately 40 short films between 1962 and 1989. He suffered from Parkinson’s during the last decades of his life; a time in which he also produced a wide range of video works. These later pieces include documents of his struggles with illness as well as his immersion in ritual S&M culture.