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Tom Kalin

Tom Kalin’s work focuses on the portrayal of gay sexuality both in the age of AIDS and historically, as in his acclaimed New Queer Cinema feature Swoon (1992). Informed by his work with two AIDS activist collectives, ACT UP and Gran Fury, Kalin’s video work is characterized by beautifully murky appropriated images and vibrant original portraits and performances. Kalin co-produced the feature films Go Fish (Rose Troché, 1994) and I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron, 1996) and is on the film faculty at Columbia University.


Available Titles by Tom Kalin

Title Year Runtime Collection
Confirmed Bachelor 1994 00:02:45 Single Titles
Dark Cave 1998 00:04:15 Single Titles
Darling Child 1993 00:02:00 Single Titles
EIGHT (Roland Barthes) 2000 00:00:30 Single Titles
Every Evening Freedom 2002 00:02:45 Single Titles
Every Wandering Cloud 2005 00:07:00 Single Titles
Excerpts from Behold Goliath 2004 00:10:00 Single Titles
finally destroy us 1991 00:04:00 Single Titles
FIVE (Alfred Chester) 2000 00:00:55 Single Titles
FOUR (Oscar Wilde) 2000 00:00:15 Single Titles
Give Me Your Future 1999 00:07:00 Single Titles
I hung back, held fire, danced and lied 1997 00:05:00 Single Titles
INFORMATION GLADLY GIVEN BUT SAFETY REQUIRES AVOIDING UNNECESSARY CONVERSATION 1995 00:01:05 Single Titles
Third Known Nest by Tom Kalin 2000 00:37:10 Single Artist Compilations
Kissing Doesn't Kill 1990 00:03:50 Single Titles
Nation 1992 00:01:00 Single Titles
NINE (James Baldwin) 2000 00:00:30 Single Titles
Nomads 1993 00:04:50 Single Titles
ONE (Jane Bowles) 2000 00:00:30 Single Titles
The Robots of Sodom 2002 00:02:45 Single Titles
SEVEN (Virginia Wolf) 2000 00:00:30 Single Titles
SIX (Virginia Woolf) 2000 00:00:30 Single Titles
Some Desperate Crime on My Head 2003 00:03:00 Single Titles
They are lost to vision altogether 1989 00:13:00 Single Titles
THREE (Derek Jarman) 2000 00:00:40 Single Titles
TWO (Patricia Highsmith) 2000 00:00:55 Single Titles
The Whole World is (Still) Watching 2016 01:15:12 Compilations, Curated Compilations

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