Tom Chomont

Tom Chomont

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.

Night Blossoms - PulpMovies
Phases of the Moon: The Parapsychology of Everyday Life - PulpMovies
Epilog/Siam - PulpMovies
The Heavens - PulpMovies
abda/Rebirth - PulpMovies
Lijn II - PulpMovies
Mona Lysa - PulpMovies
Jabbok - PulpMovies
Oblivion - PulpMovies
Jabbock - PulpMovies
Aria - PulpMovies
Earth - PulpMovies
Anthony - PulpMovies
Ophelia - PulpMovies
Twilight - PulpMovies
Portret - PulpMovies
Flames - PulpMovies
Head Shot - PulpMovies
Razor Head - PulpMovies
The Cat Lady - PulpMovies
Love Objects - PulpMovies
Aquarium - PulpMovies
Minor Revisions - PulpMovies
Inner Sanctum - PulpMovies
Untitled - PulpMovies
Spider Jan.16.91 - PulpMovies
The Mirror Garden - PulpMovies
Morpheus In Hell - PulpMovies
Space Time Studies - PulpMovies
Gloria in the Glass - PulpMovies
Joe's Maison - PulpMovies
A Persian Rug - PulpMovies
The Hidden Staircase - PulpMovies
A Faustian Knot - PulpMovies
The Movie Database logo

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.