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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 sa…
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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.
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2006
Mother's Day
Movie Director
- 2005
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2003
Early Monthly Segments
Movie
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2002
Tom
Movie Himself
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1998
Panic Bodies
Movie
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1998
Twilight
Movie Director
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1997
Birth of a Nation
Movie Self
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1994
Aquarium
Movie Director
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1994
Spider Jan.16.91
Movie Director
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1984
Committed
Movie Additional Photography
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1984
Razor Head
Movie Director
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1984
Joe's Maison
Movie Director
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1979
Minor Revisions
Movie Director
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1978
Earth
Movie Director
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1978
Lover
Movie
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1977
Space Time Studies
Movie Director
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1977
The Heavens
Movie Director
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1975
abda/Rebirth
Movie Director
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1973
Re: Incarnation
Movie Director
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1972
Research
Movie Director
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1972
Lijn II
Movie Director
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1971
Love Objects
Movie Director
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1970
Portret
Movie Director
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1970
Aria
Movie Director
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1969
The Cat Lady
Movie Director
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1969
Ophelia
Movie Director
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1969
Oblivion
Movie Director
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1969
A Persian Rug
Movie Director
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1969
Untitled
Movie Director
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1969
Gloria in the Glass
Movie Director
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1968
Phases of the Moon: The Parapsychology of Everyday Life
Movie Director
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1968
Epilog/Siam
Movie Director
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1967
Spiracle
Movie
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1967
Jabbok
Movie Director
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1967
The Mirror Garden
Movie Director
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1967
Morpheus In Hell
Movie Director
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1966
Galaxie
Movie Self
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1966
Mona Lysa
Movie Director
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1966
Anthony
Movie Director
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1965
Flames
Movie Director
