Film Format: 16mm

  • U-Champs

    Mutt and Jeff rubber stamps, 35mm motion picture, scratch-on-film and Felix the Cat are all combined in a hodge-podge tribute to the letter U.

  • All the Great Operas (in 10 Minutes)

    Using Monty-Pythonesque animation, this film serves up the stripped-down essence of the most famous operas in a quick and painless manner, and reveals once and for all that opera has more in common with soap opera and pulp fiction than anyone likes to admit.

  • Chomont’s Selected Shorts #2

    FOR SALE ONLY Contains: Endymion Joe’s Maison 5 min. COL. SILENT 1984 The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by “La Maison Des Mortes” by Guillaume Apollinaire. After filming Joe destroyed the paintings and closed his gallery, Shekhina, where the paintings were filmed. The Heavens 5 min COL SILENT 1977 Earth 4.5 min COL Silent 1978

  • Late

    Radio evangelist Sister Agnes Phillips dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls against a late-night urban landscape of seedy hotels and dial-a-saviour billboards. Awards: Detroit Film Center Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004

  • Fuzzy Lover

    A collage of sampled and recycled sequences of digital and chemically manipulated live video and abstract animation; “Fuzzy Lover” explores the forms that emerge through the interaction of different materials and processes; the problems of authenticity, identity and representation associated with reproduction and the aesthetics of cultural overlay.

  • Root

    A notebook/catalogue of optical experiences, memories and thoughts composed of geometric and organic looking abstract images painted directly onto clear 16mm stock, interspersed with sequences of found footage. My first experiment in hand-painted film-making and optical printing, (painted in 1993 and edited in 2003) exploring the frame-by-frame interaction of contrasting colours, textures and shapes, and referencing Hans Richter’s ‘Rhythm 21’, Len Lye’s ‘Colour Box’, Stan Brakhage’s ‘MothLight’ and ‘The Flicker’ by Tony Conrad. Images from Root were used as source material for my other films Pour, Deluxe, Double, Radiator, SKZCP and Letters.

  • From Memory

    A poetic meditation on time and light, formed through an exploration of the material and illusory properties of paint and film, movement in counterpoint and miniature. Composed of organic-looking abstract marks and gestures painted directly onto film and manipulated photographically using an optical printer.

  • Chomont’s Selected Shorts #3

    FOR SALE ONLY Contains: Minor Revisions 11 min. COL SILENT 1979 The original idea was to approach the physical/metaphysical as the theme of nourishment, both spiritual and gastronomical. This was somewhat altered by three visits from a friend entering the US army. Razorhead 8 min COL SILENT 1981 The film was made on the request of the participants as a record of a two-day erotic ritual. 400 feet of film was shot and later permission was obtained to treat the materialas an aesthetic composition, approximately 250 feet long. Originally the film was intended as part of a series dealing with…

  • Open

    An abstract film of vertical horror, absence and descent (After Marcel Duchamp’s painting, ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’, 1912) composed in-camera by optically manipulating an individual frame of hand-painted film. With electronic music track by David McKenzie. The film frame was painted in a single stroke to imitate the blurring of images produced by the opening and closing of the eyelid; and by film slippage (a common fault, where damaged film runs through the camera or projector gate without stopping). Subtle movements of reflected light on the film surface and parallax camera motion animate the painting; which, in tandem with the…

  • Pour

    An abstract animation exploring the themes of attraction and repulsion, suspension and release. Formed through the delicate transformation of colours, textures and shapes painted on film. With music by David McKenzie.