Mike Kuchar Movies

A "birthday boy's" poetic yearnings on paper translate into a quest for perfection."

"...Deep in the garden of the Artist's heart, ghosts of bygone worlds arise on gothic wings, calling forth delicious languors."

He sighs for strange and hidden cities whose walls are pink stone, inlaid with opals, ebony and silver, and for altars where the body is worshiped...

A topsy-turvy romp.

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with...

"No man can stay in bed forever...He must rise up; up the steep steps of perfection."

A 16mm black and white remake of an 8mm color film done years earlier, this time with students enrolled in a 'dramatic narrative' summer workshop....

A hell of a lot more of you through a keyhole!!

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

There was plenty of fruit growing in Eden; mangos, pears, oranges...why did Eve have to pick that Apple!

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

Green spills over purple ridges and into deep cut valleys. Blue surges up from rounds and hollows, blending with incandescent pink plains, revealing...

Many a man has tried to leave the prison of his hide; it's no "paradise" living in skin!

He made some 'love'....where has it all gone? --Mike Kuchar

"A Tub Named Desire," the first movie with Donna Kerness, does not exist anymore, except for one 8mm print that was in George Kuchar's possession....

A club for misfits who descend into a psychedelic underworld. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute.

A rose scented breeze enters a young man's, winding its cool arms around him... Together they will roam the darkness of his life.

Part three of Mike Kuchar's Heat Rash: This audio, visual laxative empties the mind of inhibitions to allow the spectator entrance into the whirlpool...

"...Roy has set in and spread across the fabric of their lives."