Mike Kuchar Movies

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

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the...

Waiting to die and waiting to live is the same thing to him that chants: "Let me not be mad... let me not be MAD... LET ME NOT BE MAD!"

With lashings of humour and affection, this much-loved filmmaker and his students create a wonderful journey from the chaos of hell to the paradise...

An evocative 16mm short shot during a visit to Nepal.

A topsy-turvy romp.

...They'd rather climb to the stars, than give their souls to a soulless world

...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...

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

Amid the silence of a pastel hued room, a soul, fully-fleshed, gathers secrets whispered by the moon over his cool bedsheets.

OverRiped words from the lips of an OverExposed boy decorates this litany in pink with purple bruises.

He is mute flesh that the stroking of fingers can bring to sing.

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

...They had their source in tangled vegetable matter, countless rapes and invasions and enjoy good wine with the girls.

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

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...

In this summerland a path opens for Poets, Artists, ...and the 'Dreamer'.

A short film by George Kuchar.

Things "go bump in broad daylight" as archetypical characters romp about in a sunny forest...doll like things and beast men.