Tom Kalin
- Introduction
- Tom Kalin (born 1962) is a screenwriter, film director, producer, and professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.His debut feature, Swoon, is considered an integral part of the New Queer Cinema. In addition to his feature work, Kalin has created a number of short films, many of which are collected in the compilations Behold Goliath or The Boy With the Filthy Laugh, Third Known Nest and Tom Kalin Videoworks: Volume 2. Much of Kalin's work touches on issues of homosexuality (both modern-day and historical) and AIDS. He was a member of two AIDS direct action groups, ACT UP and Gran Fury. His work has won much critical acclaim and garnered a number of awards and nominations, including honors from the Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Fest and a number of gay and lesbian film festivals. Kalin won the Gotham Awards Open Palm Award (for Swoon) and has been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. Kalin's last project was Savage Grace, Savage Grace tells the story of the 1972 Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case and stars Julianne Moore as Baekeland. Tom Kalin has taught graduate-level filmmaking classes at Columbia University School of the Arts, and is currently lecturing at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
- Wikidata
- Q447005
Exhibitions
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Tom Kalin finally destroy us 1991
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Tom Kalin Nation 1992
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Tom Kalin Darling Child 1993
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Tom Kalin Nomads 1993
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Tom Kalin Confirmed Bachelor 1994
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Tom Kalin Information Gladly Given but Safety Requires Unnecessary Conversation 1995
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Tom Kalin I hung back, held fire, danced and lied 1995
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Tom Kalin Dark Cave 1998
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Tom Kalin Third Known Nest 1991-1999
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Tom Kalin Give Me Your Future 1999
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