Mike Kuchar Movies

An angry trollop and a self-doubting college kid collide in his cramped apartment for an episode of claustrophobia and self-analysis.

"Curt McDowell's NUDES (A Sketchbook) is a paean to the filmmaker's closest friends: a series of portraits (beginning with one of George Kuchar)...

Be careful when you go out into the surf in a skimpy thong... the current can be treacherous and turbulent as is the human heart!

Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named Hedda whose marriage to husband Neal (Don Bajema)...

A short film by George Kuchar.

A "grand dame's" delirious daydream blooms like a voluptous blossom in spring.

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

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

Starring George Kuchar as "Hunk", Mrs. Ruby B. Davis as "Aunt Ruth", and introducing Melinda McDowell as the much-abused, sex bomb "Goldenrod".

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

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.

Ripe fruit in sweaty socks; soft eyes, stained and suffering in the origin of consciousness, and a soul needing refrigeration, for it has nearly gone...

A vain, self centered mother competes with her daughter in the world of carnivorous men and sleazy movies.

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.

A wide-ranging look at pictures I collect on my walls and in my head. A look at pictures I concoct with my students at the San Francisco Art...