Movies: Mike Kuchar

Sex, sleaze, drugs, blood, and much, much more!...

Commissioned to be a "promo" for a loud punk rock band, Mr. Kuchar feared that the noise the band made would spoil the mood of his visuals, so he used the sound of a lush orchestra to score the picture and the antics....

"Great woods, you frighten me like some cathedral's gloom, and awaken pastoral pipes on pagan heights."...

"...will somebody lend him their sins, because his old worn out ones have become tiresome."...

In this dream-portrait, Mike Kuchar floats through his memories as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped in odd costumes, he frolics with the imaginary creatures surrounding him, and recalls the creatures of his own imagination....

From here to there....

This breezy and flamboyant essay about an afternoon rendezvous is pure candy for the eyes....

[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives...

A short film by George Kuchar....

The dialogue for this production, featuring Cupid, is taken from the pages of a personal diary found under a chair....

Something lies yet unwritten within a poet who lost that 'spark' of having been born brand new onto a sacred stage....

In this thespian workout, a troop of stage actors improvises within a kaleidoscopic zone of warped spaces....

...It was time to chase One's shadow back into sunlight. -Mike Kuchar...

Portrait of siblings George and Mike Kuchar, who have made a name for themselves in the US underground scene with low-budget films....

"...Talking to Oneself in the mirror when down in the 'mental dumps.'"...

"Devils"..."Angels," when they sleep they dream not of Heaven, but of us. —Mike Kuchar...

A bunch of Punk Rockers puke up all sorts of stuff....

...Somewhere inside him something slumbers; the myths, the beliefs that flow, fuse and burn through him....

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and digitized for analysis....

Like ships in a harbor, men come and go in relationships. But, as one character says to another character who is heartbroken: "You sucked enough juice out of him... don't be greedy!"...