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Tom Kalin

Known for

Directing

Born

March 4, 1962 (age 64)

Birthplace

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Tom Kalin (born 1962) is an award-winning 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 o...

Best known work

Savage Grace
Savage Grace
2007
I Shot Andy Warhol
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
Office Killer
Office Killer
1997
Go Fish
Go Fish
1994
Swoon
Swoon
1992
Pride
Pride
2021
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
2012
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
This Road Will Never End
This Road Will Never End
1996
Corona Film Club
Corona Film Club
2021

Filmography

  1. 2021

    PrideTV

    Director

  2. 2021

  3. 2019

  4. 2017

    FAKE!

    Director

  5. 2016

  6. 2014

    Ashes

    Director

  7. 2013

  8. 2012

  9. 2007

    Savage Grace

    Director, Co-Producer, Editor

  10. 1999

  11. 1998

    Tree Shade

    Post Production Supervisor

  12. 1997

    Office Killer

    Screenplay

  13. 1997

  14. 1996

  15. 1996

  16. 1994

  17. 1994

    Go Fish

    Executive Producer

  18. 1993

    Geoffrey Beene 30

    Writer, Director

  19. 1992

    Swoon

    Director, Writer, Editor

  20. 1992

    Nation

    Director, Writer

  21. 1991

  22. 1989

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