Mike Kuchar Movies

“It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle...

Artists with brushes need light to paint a picture, but human feelings function just as well in the dark.

Although too long by half, this documentary is subtitled "A Trip Through Lotti's Life" and that is essentially what it is. Although done in a style...

There is a garden in the dark hunger of his psyche where forbidden fruit grows.

A 'poet' and a 'painter' discover a malign muse, but their fear and anger keep them young.

He hears the whispers of gargoyles in a hall of heavy stone.

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

Secret number... secret shape... knower of the secret name... God of the realm of night - I summon you, 'Son of Sin'... arise!

The Vagabond...what does he seek? - ask the River, ask the Wind - but don't ask Him!

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...

Playwright and performance artist Marc Arthur paves a color-saturated path from 'awake consciousness' to sleeping 'dreamscape'.

Short gay melodrama.

It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existance is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions...

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

A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!

A ripe lad embarks on a raw correspondence with his mirrored image, and thus: the dialogue is "fleshed out" to its full potential.

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

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...

Enter a shimmering forest and encounter the Pot Boiling turbulence of pre-history tribes in conflict. See sacrificial virgins, volcanoes, knife...

This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to...