Mike Kuchar Movies

This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to...

“I shall walk softly on the Earth but make the footprints deep”. A young man contemplates the inevitable passing of time, and the...

...What once was for him "real," is now but a "dream," --for the day comes when we find ourselves stranded with memories.

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

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...

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

Two souls, one aged, the other young, contemplate flowers, fairies and earthbound angels sent to tempt and tease.

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

“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...

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

In the serene zone between twilight and dawn, a lullaby of thoughts floats beneath a blanket of stars.

The stimulus for this dissertation on the reason behind the creative impulse is taken verbatim from an author's preface to his book.

Playwright and performance artist Marc Arthur paves a color-saturated path from 'awake consciousness' to sleeping 'dreamscape'.

A kiss can be devine or demonic. A kiss can change your life...alter it.

In this dream-portrait, Mike Kuchar floats through his memories as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped in odd costumes, he frolics with the...

A "painter" casts out the demons that haunt his canvases and who creep into his bed at night.

Based on a short story by Charles Bukowski from the collection "Tales of Ordinary Madness."

A high-spirited romp through the (former) campus of San Francisco Art Institute, with two films each from George and Mike Kuchar. Features:...

Blue skies, babbling brooks, and a big book in a field full of flowers is the departure point for this video.