Mike Kuchar Movies

From here to there.

Many a man has tried to leave the prison of his hide; it's no "paradise" living in skin!

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

A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...

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

Artists with brushes need light to paint a picture, but human feelings function just as well in the dark.

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...

...Somewhere inside him something slumbers; the myths, the beliefs that flow, fuse and burn through him.

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

In this thespian workout, a troop of stage actors improvises within a kaleidoscopic zone of warped spaces.

A real and favorite dream of mine, preserved on film to be relived over and over.

Enter a shimmering forest and encounter the Pot Boiling turbulence of pre-history tribes in conflict. See sacrificial virgins, volcanoes, knife...

"...Talking to Oneself in the mirror when down in the 'mental dumps.'"

A mother and daughter, both dressed in "shocking pink", clash over men and money.

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

Videomaker and spoken word performer David Finkelstein sleepwalks down into subconscious corridors.

Armed with an overripe script and ample supply of false eyelashes and lip gloss.

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...

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

A "birthday boy's" poetic yearnings on paper translate into a quest for perfection."