San Francisco Cinematheque presents
Of Heaven & Earth: The Films of Tom Chomont
- When
- Tue Sep 29, 2009
- Where
- San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
- Time
- 7:30 pm
- Cost
- $5 - $10
- Tags
- Movies, Other Film, Gay Film
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Description
Since 1961, Tom Chomont -- avant-garde master, New York provocateur, leather fetishist, HIV survivor -- has created over sixty experimental films that capture the beauty of everyday encounters and illuminate the transcendental possibilities of the physical world. While his early impressionistic film portraits of friends and lovers evoke the erotic lyricism and trance-like rhythms of early Kenneth Anger and Gregory Markopoulos, his later videos, raw and hard-edged, use similar montage techniques to mine darker territories of ritual and sadomasochism. These meditative and formally innovative films are at once intimate and intense, otherworldly memory poems of a daring and examined life. This survey of Chomont's pioneering aesthetic includes nine newly restored early 16mm films created between 1967 and 1971 and a selection of later film and video work.Curated and presented by Kyle Stephan. In association with Frameline and the SFAI Filmmaking Department.
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- Link
- http://www.sfcinematheque.org/
- Call
- 415.552.1990
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