Mike Kuchar Movies

A woman discovers her husband cheating.

In a garden of roses and memorabilia from darkest Africa, a man and woman ponder the joy of cooking and the companionship of cats. Goodies for the...

From here to there.

A brief interview with Johnnie Didge followed by a demonstration/performance.

A contemplative, static walk in the woods.

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....

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

Return to the House of Pain documents my walking through the turf and sludge of the Big Apple and many worm holes... I chomp my way back west and...

A rhythmic flow of image with sound, weaving a mood suspended in time.

Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a...

A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses.

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of...

A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images

"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....

Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...

A kaleidoscopic concoction done with improvising actors.

Paint drips and body fluids ooze in this "tell all" and "hide nothing" documentary about two San Francisco males.

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