Tom Kalin

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-03-04 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Tom Kalin

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...

Acting

Production

2007

Savage Grace

as Director

1992

Swoon

as Director

1993

1996

2016

True Believer

as Director

2014

Ashes

as Director

2017

FAKE!

as Director

1992

Nation

as Director

1992

Nation

as Writer

1994

Go Fish

as Executive Producer

1997

Office Killer

as Screenplay

1992

Swoon

as Writer

1992

Swoon

as Editor

1993

1991

1999

Third Known Nest

as Director

2007

Savage Grace

as Co-Producer

2007

Savage Grace

as Editor

1994

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