Mike Kuchar Movies

A short comedy by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle...

A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.

In the serene zone between twilight and dawn, a lullaby of thoughts floats beneath a blanket of stars.

A sensitive soul with skin receptive to the World's natural elements and who has a mind open for expansive contemplation, embarks on an "inner...

A young man yearns for a mysterious lover.

“I shall walk softly on the Earth but make the footprints deep”. A young man contemplates the inevitable passing of time, and the...

This outdoor meditation is drenched with sunlight, carressed by breezes and blessed with a young man who discovers his special "role" in Time's...

When the body's "primal" urges feel deprived in a "modern" age, a debate about "sex" and "love" ensues to resolve the question — perhaps even...

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

High above the far horizon, a beacon burns cold, bright and calm.

In the depths of night lurks a beautiful fever that heats a man's blood.

Two earthbound bodies soul-surf into a new age of enlightenment.

An epic tale of love and loss. Made using voicemails the Kuchar brothers left on her home answering machine, the artist reveals George and Mike in...

His written letters will fade at the first light; if indeed he is dreaming the world!

A "painter" casts out the demons that haunt his canvases and who creep into his bed at night.

He peels away layers of secrets to you for what you are, and he likes scars because they tell stories.

A broken god on the stone slab in a desert, waiting for "he" that will dig for him; wipe the sand from his handsome face.

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

They walk through "life", sometimes with no "compass" in hand and become "lost".