Mike Kuchar Movies

  • 1976
    The Shadow Glass

    The Shadow Glass

    The Shadow Glass

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    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...

    The Shadow Glass
  • 1976
    Seadrift

    Seadrift

    Seadrift

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    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 synthes...

    Seadrift
  • 1966
    River Windows

    River Windows

    River Windows

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    "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 ha...

    River Windows
  • 1977
    George and Mike Kuchar

    George and Mike Kuchar

    George and Mike Kuchar

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    George and Mike Kuchar
  • 1974
    Nudes: A Sketchbook

    Nudes: A Sketchbook

    Nudes: A Sketchbook

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    A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.

    Nudes: A Sketchbook
  • 1972
    Peed Into the Wind

    Peed Into the Wind

    Peed Into the Wind

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    “PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and unusual looking...

    Peed Into the Wind
  • 2023
    My Morning with Magic Mike

    My Morning with Magic Mike

    My Morning with Magic Mike

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    A visit with the inimitable Mike Kuchar.

    My Morning with Magic Mike
  • 1988
    Return to the House of Pain

    Return to the House of Pain

    Return to the House of Pain

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    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 gnaw...

    Return to the House of Pain
  • 1966
    Galaxie

    Galaxie

    Galaxie

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    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. Au...

    Galaxie
  • 1968
    Underground New York

    Underground New York

    Underground New York

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    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 American cul...

    Underground New York
  • 1967
    The Unclean

    The Unclean

    The Unclean

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    Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

    The Unclean
  • 1967
    Color Me Shameless

    Color Me Shameless

    Color Me Shameless

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    Color Me Shameless
  • 2010
    Snow Beard

    Snow Beard

    Snow Beard

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    A moving tribute to New York icon Mike Kuchar, filmed on his last day before leaving Manhattan to relocate to San Francisco

    Snow Beard
  • 2024
    East by Southwest

    East by Southwest

    East by Southwest

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    A trip to Boston to visit a local filmmaker in his studio is followed by a journey to the cinematic facilities of SUNY College in Purchase, NY, and th...

    East by Southwest
  • 1974
    True Blue and Dreamy

    True Blue and Dreamy

    True Blue and Dreamy

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

    True Blue and Dreamy
  • 1987
    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

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

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    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 and for...

    365 Day Project
  • 1964
    Lust for Ecstasy

    Lust for Ecstasy

    Lust for Ecstasy

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    “LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I arrived on the set I...

    Lust for Ecstasy
  • 1963
    Confessions of Babette

    Confessions of Babette

    Confessions of Babette

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    An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.

    Confessions of Babette
  • 1965
    Corruption of the Damned

    Corruption of the Damned

    Corruption of the Damned

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    Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted outl...

    Corruption of the Damned