George Kuchar
Biography: George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011) and his twin brother Mike began making films as teenagers in the 1950s, with 8mm film being their weapon of choice. After shocking their local amateur filmmaking club with their over-the-top stories of lust and angst, they became stars of the NYC underground scene in the 1960s, befriending the likes of Jonas Mekas and Jack Smith. Always working with the constraints of minuscule budgets and nonprofessional actors, the Kuchar’s inspiration comes from classic Hollywood melodrama. Their cheaply made pictures, rather than being held back by lack of funds, blossomed in the shackles of poverty; the garish colors of the cheap makeup and sets were perfectly complemented by the bold color range afforded by Kodachrome reversal stock. The wild (and sometimes the inverse of wild) acting, use of stock music, lack of synch sound, hyperbolic narration, and primitive special effects all combined to make tiny gems unlike anything seen before or since. The Kuchars are cited as major influences by such filmmakers as John Waters, Todd Solondz, and David Lynch.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 31, 1942
Deathday: September 06, 2011
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Known For
Web of Fire
Web of Fire
Overview: Short film.
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Original Language: en
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Arizona Byways
2001-01-01
Arizona Byways
Overview: A cactus-strewn desert becomes the backdrop for this series of filmic stopovers. Great natural beauty clashes with manufactured outdoorsmanship, as a tired body and sluggish mind seek the oblivion of hotel hospitality in an arid region of artistic aspirations. The viewer is introduced to a world of prickly plants and satin-skinned succubi who prowl the alleys of western decay to staple their fig leaflets on the vertical shafts that poke unsheathed at the virgin skies of southern Arizona. The sheaths are administered, and the population prepares for cinematic coupling in a city park earmarked for culture. Enter the masculine caves that spilled forth their glittering guts onto a surface world as desperate for gems as it was for water. Witness this natural spectacle all packaged and delivered in the form of a vacation video, and marvel at the mavens of movie-making as they bombard the public with a cacophony of celluloid under the moonlit, desert sky.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Warming of the Hell House
1990-01-01
The Warming of the Hell House
Overview: A trip across the bay to Concord yields a harvest of non-fruit-like beings who celebrate a housewarming that simmers with macho machinations and family discord. The mood is upbeat while the company is lowbrow, and coming out of the bushes rather than the woodwork.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Foto Spread
1991-01-01
Foto Spread
Overview: A photographer comes to my home to take pictures and gets a lensful. His mouth and his shutter snap away as I aim my finest attributes at his cold and hard equipment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Christmas 85
1985-12-25
Christmas 85
Overview: Another Holiday Diary film from George Kuchar
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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Kiss of the Veggie Vixen
1990-01-02
Kiss of the Veggie Vixen
Overview: A portrait of Marion Eaton, film and stage actress, etched with a green thumb and a brown nose.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-02
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All Smiles and Sadness
1999-01-01
All Smiles and Sadness
Overview: McGuire constructs a murky black and white soap-opera world of endless, timeless, and placeless limbo, where the characters talk to each other entirely in clichés, bad poetry, and other contrite forms of speech — a short TV show in which nothing is resolved. The video culminates in an absolutely stunning monologue performance by legendary underground film and videomaker George Kuchar.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Shadow Glass
1976-01-01
The Shadow Glass
Overview: 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 love and life, sends his reflection cut to procure and win for him the object of his desire. Rather than being his servant and slave, the reflection takes over and controls the life of the man. In frustration and anger the man kills his reflection in order to be set free. The reality of the situation is the reality of suicide. The entire film could be interpreted as taking place in a brief second–for as long as it takes pull the trigger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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River Windows
1966-01-01
River Windows
Overview: "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 halting transition from the journey through time back to the watery one that evoked." –Ken Kelman
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony
1975-01-01
Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony
Overview: A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our alienation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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George and Mike Kuchar
1977-01-01
George and Mike Kuchar
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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A Night with Gilda Peck
1974-01-01
A Night with Gilda Peck
Overview: A vehicle for the talented Mrs. Kathleen Hohalek, as the tenant of the Pyramid Penthouse, with George Kuchar and Bob Hohalek as the burglars, "Slug," and "Boom Boom," John Thomas as "the Cooper" and Ainslie Pryor as "the maid."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Craven Sluck
1967-12-21
The Craven Sluck
Overview: A desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she seems to wish.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Sins of the Fleshapoids
1965-01-04
Sins of the Fleshapoids
Overview: One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids." One day, fleshapoid Xar runs wild, kills its mistress and seeks its mate, a servant of wicked Prince Gianbeno.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-04
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Brakhage
1998-09-17
Brakhage
Overview: BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travelers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. While touching on significant moments in Brakhage’s biography, the film celebrates Brakhage’s visionary genius, and explores the extraordinary artistic possibilities of cinema, a medium mostly known only for its commercial applications in the form of narratives, cartoons, documentaries, and advertising. BRAKHAGE combines excerpts from Brakhage’s films and films of other avant-garde filmmakers (eg, George Kuchar, Jonas Mekas, Willie Varela, Bruce Elder, and others); interviews with Brakhage, his friends, family, colleagues, and critics; archival footage of Brakhage spanning the past thirty-five years; and location shooting in Boulder, Colorado and New York.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-17
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I, an Actress
1977-12-09
I, an Actress
Overview: An actress and a director run through a melodramatic scene, speaking to a mannequin.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-09
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(ir)reverence
2013-04-10
(ir)reverence
Overview: "George Kuchar meets my mother."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-10
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Wild Night in El Reno
1977-09-06
Wild Night in El Reno
Overview: "In the late spring of each year the Great Plains states of the U.S. experience a season characterised by destructive tornadoes of awesome force. This is the time of year when the underground film- and video-maker George Kuchar leaves his San Francisco home to make his annual pilgrimage to the nidus of these frightening storms. As hail and twisters batter the heartland, Kuchar holes up with his video camera in an inexpensive motel room somewhere in the vast prairies of Oklahoma and waits." - Jesse Lerner, Storm Squatting at El Reno (at cabinetmagazine.org)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-06
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Sherman Acres
1992-01-01
Sherman Acres
Overview: A drama in six episodes involving psychological breakdowns, marital showdowns, and messy obsessions. The characters include a wayward priest, a promiscuous school-teacher and her proctologist husband, teenage thrill killers, and an obsession-driven psychotherapist with an enema bag. Lots of special effects, as it moves quickly from one major crisis to another.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974-01-01
Nudes: A Sketchbook
Overview: A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Taboo: The Single and the LP
1980-01-01
Taboo: The Single and the LP
Overview: Blend of documentary and domestic melodrama featuring a series of sexually charged vignettes inspired by a piece of toilet graffiti. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Anita Needs Me
1964-03-11
Anita Needs Me
Overview: An overheated tale of lust, guilt, and Mom, made as a response to the French New Wave.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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George Kuchar: An Interview
2005-01-01
George Kuchar: An Interview
Overview: Since the 1980s, Kuchar has been creating brilliantly edited, hilarious, and often diaristic tapes made with dime-store props and not-so-special effects, using friends as actors and the "pageant that is life" for his studio. In this interview, Kuchar, in a generous, gregarious mood despite the Manhattan summer humidity, discusses his life and the full range of his work from the early collaborative films to his most recent tapes. Conversational anecdotes, frank and witty, provide insight into Kuchar's working methods, as well as the work itself and its reception in various quarters.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Return to the House of Pain
1988-01-01
Return to the House of Pain
Overview: 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 on all that sinks stomachward and beyond in vertiginous aching.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Weather Diary 1
1986-01-01
Weather Diary 1
Overview: George Kuchar travels to Oklahoma in search of tornadoes, spends most of his time watching TV and eating food.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Galaxie
1966-09-03
Galaxie
Overview: 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. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, most observed in their homes or studios. Filmed in vibrant color, Galaxie pulses with life. It is a masterpiece of in-camera composition and editing, and stands as a vibrant response to Andy Warhol's contemporary Screen Tests. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-03
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Born of the Wind
1964-03-04
Born of the Wind
Overview: A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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Vault of Vapors
2009-01-01
Vault of Vapors
Overview: One of Kuchars weather diary series out in Oklahoma. The tone is wistful, the surroundings wispy (with some puffs of pungency). The TV is on and the porcelain is smeared with some residue atrocity from a previous passion. But all is well as emptiness persists beyond the four walls of this prairie mausoleum.
Genres: Comedy Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Butchered Beefcake
2011-01-01
The Butchered Beefcake
Overview: This video diary visits two sites that exhibited Kuchars visual works this past year, culminating at the VOLTA ART SHOW in N.Y.C., where he sold some paintings and a photograph.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Vintage Visits
2010-01-01
Vintage Visits
Overview: Another edition to Kuchars weather diary series, this particular one has more social intercourse occurring in the prairie hovel which houses the hidden longings of he who seeks sustenance from the void. The void acts up in the beginning and then simmers warmly in the glow of companionship from fellow travelers on this Route 66 to who knows where? Perhaps to that pillar of pancake perfection known as Denny's (the restaurant, not the deity).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Nutrient Express
2010-01-01
The Nutrient Express
Overview: A trip to Winnipeg introduces the viewer to moments of Canadian cuisine and to the easily digestible tidbits that make up the WNDX Film/Video Festival. Come join the movie buffs as they beef up on eye candy and tummy truffles, all the while indulging in a masticating miasma of minutia that's easy to swallow. Wash it all down with some river views and Mr. Coffee secretions and you'll get a taste of the treats that await all who head north to appease the more southerly rumblings of the human anatomy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Tummy Ache Times
2010-01-01
Tummy Ache Times
Overview: It's the season of joy once again and this video depicts the tasty and the troublesome in big, heaping spoonfuls. Witness a social whirlpool of whipped confections and stripped confessions tastefully prepared in soupy symbolism. See man and domesticated mammals share in the bounty of a cosmopolitan cornucopia. Feast your eyes and ears on the snap-crackle-and-pop culture of a city simmering in smut. Swallow it all in the 4:3 format and good luck in the digestive department.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Calorie Cottage
2010-01-01
Calorie Cottage
Overview: Encompassing both Thanksgiving, Christmas and the exploding New Year's Eve celebrations, this holiday video is chock full of chicken and chatter befitting the season. There's a turkey in there too and a hungry clan of consumer ready to eat you out of house and home (with a house made specifically for that purpose). Come join the merry mayhem as young and old devour what's left of the old year to burp up the new one!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Delectable Destinations
2010-01-01
Delectable Destinations
Overview: This time, the call of the west sends Kuchar packing to Oregon, California and Arizona. You too can experience the dizzy delights of a whirlwind tour and witness wonders seen through the savage eye of a Sony camcorder. Actually, the adventure is rather mellow in mood and should spare the viewer a need for the ever looming and inevitable barf bag. See Phoenix in all its rocky royalty! Relish in the student clogged ivy halls of Portland! Immerse yourself in a technicolor rendering of Irvine, California. And don't worry, the trip isn't that long, as that savage eye has a short attention span.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Hitchcocked!
2006-08-11
Hitchcocked!
Overview: A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Underground New York
1968-01-01
Underground New York
Overview: 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 culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Unclean
1967-08-12
The Unclean
Overview: Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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Weather Diary 3
1988-01-01
Weather Diary 3
Overview: Set in and around a Reno motel, the tape records George's growing friendship with a young weather expert.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
2013-03-09
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Overview: A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960s and '70s to profoundly embrace life and ‘follow your own weird’.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-09
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The Mongreloid
1978-09-21
The Mongreloid
Overview: A man, his dog, and the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on the landscape. Not even time can wash away the residue of what they left behind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-21
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George
1976-01-01
George
Overview: George (1976, revised in 1988) is a portrait of George Kuchar composed on a J-K optical printer with 4 scenes always running simultaneously through frame alternation .
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Confessions
1972-03-15
Confessions
Overview: Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-15
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Boggy Depot
1973-01-01
Boggy Depot
Overview: Two men hypnotize their roommate and attempt to force him to fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Sparkle's Tavern
1985-06-01
Sparkle's Tavern
Overview: Siblings hide their ownership of a bordello from their mother. When she is visited by a man who shares the joys of sexual enlightenment with her, her entire world is turned upside down.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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East by Southwest
East by Southwest
Overview: 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 then to the kitchen and living quarters of my mother in the Bronx. My mother is in her most candid mode as we relate and debate. My brother Mike suffers dental woes, too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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True Blue and Dreamy
1974-01-01
True Blue and Dreamy
Overview: "A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle International Film Festival, 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Peed Into the Wind
1972-01-01
Peed Into the Wind
Overview: “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 people that make this epic resemble a clogged toilet. Unfortunately, since several of the performers were not as loyal as Ainslie Pryor and John Thomas, the plot is difficult to follow but in no way hinders the sewer-like sequences. It’s quite enjoyable and possesses the releasing power of an enema.” –George Kuchar. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Eat My Makeup!
2010-04-10
Eat My Makeup!
Overview: With George Kuchar, Marie Losier, Jason Livingston, Paul Shepard. Five winsome damsels picnic on the roof of a warehouse in charming Long Island City, a forest of skyscrapers gleaming across the river. But when a swarm of flies interrupts their feast of chocolate-covered pretzels and cream-pies, the young ladies run amok.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-10
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Sunset After Dark
1996-01-01
Sunset After Dark
Overview: A struggling screenwriter finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987-01-01
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
Overview: 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 that run through this existential diary of daily life. McDowell was dying from AIDS-related illnesses during the production of the diary. “An elegy for McDowell, the videowork captures Kuchar’s mournful remembrances of his long-lasting friendship with the young filmmaker. But it also has the inquisitive charm, perverse humor, and quirky candor that places Kuchar’s visual expressions in a gritty niche all their own.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Wieners and Buns Musical
1972-05-12
Wieners and Buns Musical
Overview: A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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Beaver Fever
1974-01-01
Beaver Fever
Overview: A short comedy by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Electrocute Your Stars
2004-01-01
Electrocute Your Stars
Overview: In this dream portrait, George Kuchar travels through snow confetti, strobe flashes and artificial wind as he describes his weather diaries. Then, George joins Janet Leigh in the shower. Wearing a red raincoat and a shower cap, reading comic books and blowing bubbles, he laughingly describes his bathing rituals and the making of his film, HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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365 Day Project
2007-12-31
365 Day Project
Overview: 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 an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Confessions of Babette
1963-01-01
Confessions of Babette
Overview: An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Lust for Ecstasy
1964-03-04
Lust for Ecstasy
Overview: “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 ripped them up and let my emotional whims make chopped meat out of the performances and the story…. Yes, LUST FOR ECSTASY is my subconscious, my own naked lusts that sweep across the screen in 8mm and color with full fidelity sound.” – George Kuchar
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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The Slasher
1958-01-01
The Slasher
Overview: An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Night of the Bomb
1962-01-01
Night of the Bomb
Overview: The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
1983-04-01
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
Overview: A documentary portrait of filmmaker George Kuchar conducting a tour of his apartment where he displays memorabilia and his toys which were used for props.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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Hold Me While I'm Naked
1966-04-23
Hold Me While I'm Naked
Overview: Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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Divine Trash
2000-03-31
Divine Trash
Overview: The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986-02-22
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Overview: A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-22
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007-04-11
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Overview: In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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Swamp
1990-01-01
Swamp
Overview: Swamp uses the soap opera format to play with the structure and expectations of the family melodrama. Following the melodramatic format that "if it can happen, it will happen," coincidence and unlikely events abound in a gleeful send-up of lurid intrigue, threatened morality, and endless double-crosses. With looped and repeated edits, fast-paced action, and aggressively funky video effects, Child layers on artifice and excess in an overdone remake of the TV serial.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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It Came from Kuchar
2009-09-22
It Came from Kuchar
Overview: It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no budget" films and with their uniquely enchanting spirits.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-22
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Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006-01-01
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
Overview: Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bronx. Get to know the Kuchars, casually hanging out with John Waters at a party, looking at old yearbook photos with their high school classmate Gerard Malanga. Sit in on an extensive interview with the brothers at Anthology Film Archives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Gastronomic Getaway
1991-01-01
Gastronomic Getaway
Overview: Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside pastry. Majestic mineral deposits rise from the salt laden waters as the bloated and bulimic revel in nature's nutrients."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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A Passage to Wetness
1990-01-01
A Passage to Wetness
Overview: An island. A mountain. A City of Angels who scoop up the pellets dropped by other winged creatures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989-01-01
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
Overview: 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 Institute, and objects d’art collected by those whose picture is taken by my picture-taking machine.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Cellar Sinema
1994-01-01
Cellar Sinema
Overview: A descent into the blackness of the projected image and the curators who flick the switches and grease up all moveable parts for hot action when the lights go out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Indian Summer
1991-01-01
Indian Summer
Overview: The colors of fall are muted by the fog of a lingering summer and the memory of that which is dark and naked among the dappled crimson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Migration of the Blubberoids
1989-01-01
Migration of the Blubberoids
Overview: "The whiteness of winter cannot bury the blubbery things that splash and frolic among the frozen memories of Heathen harvests, in a land haunted by lard and ancestral lip-smacking." The collision of an overly dramatic film score/soundtrack with the banal yet enigmatic images of snow covered streets leads to a dissonant effect; the expectation of one is not fulfilled by the other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989-01-01
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
Overview: A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime yearnings craving ignition.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Rainy Season
1987-11-19
Rainy Season
Overview: Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things bothering me at this time, or maybe it was one thing that broke into many pieces.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-19
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Tootsies in Autumn
1963-09-23
Tootsies in Autumn
Overview: [A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-23
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The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966-07-01
The Secret of Wendel Samson
Overview: A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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Portrait of Ramona
1971-01-01
Portrait of Ramona
Overview: 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 get started making another movie (we had completed PAGAN RHAPSODY the year before). I said "okay," and launched her in a photographed series of telephone calls, not really knowing who was going to be on the other end. I was interested at the time in irrational, neurotic responses and so the heroine was put into unstable situations that I dreamt up because I was making a movie with a plot and there should be some action .... Many of the stars appear nude and all I can say is that because of the heat and the general, overall feeling of the film which is one of the usual desperation and explosive emotions, I couldn't see any other way of them playing it. The general tone of everything was ... "Why even bother to get dressed?"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Urchins of Ungawa
1994-01-01
Urchins of Ungawa
Overview: 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 guts abound in this visual essay on feline friendship and far away places. An electronic voyage beyond the stench of house and garden that transports the viewer- and cat- to the promised land.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Creeping Crimson
1987-10-31
The Creeping Crimson
Overview: A short film by George Kuchar.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-31
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Chigger Country
1999-01-01
Chigger Country
Overview: Pastures filled with the bounty of a meateater's fantasy fill the screen with bellows of bovine origin as testosterone-driven madness runs rampant on 20,000 acres of Oklahoma soil. A lone female turkey stuffer prepares the goodies that will nourish the sunburned as they rocket skyward on the scales of numerical poundage to come crashing earthward in time for marinated hamburgers. A trip to the garden of Eden and its sanctuary for snakes with an appetite for dog meat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Visitation Rites
2003-01-01
Visitation Rites
Overview: Alone in an Oklahoma motel room with a mute companion, the talkative one speaks the language of memory as pussycats feast from a canned cornucopia. Murals plaster the vacancy intrinsic to American angst as horse tails whip from annoyance the nagging gnats of tomorrow’s dung: a heap of uncertainty made impotent by the swashes of chipped paint that depict a netherworld of faded dreams and nostalgic neurosis for the future impaired.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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3 Stories About Evil
2008-03-26
3 Stories About Evil
Overview: A very black mix of comedy about relationships, the media, children's beauty pageants, sex change operations and personal problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-26
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Chili Line Stops Here
1989-01-01
Chili Line Stops Here
Overview: A journey that begins in a Kansas City hotel and ends up in New Mexico. The bumpy ride is fuelled with libidinous juices as it lurches through college dormitories and sun-baked ghost towns. Rocks are lifted and things crawl out for all to see.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Precious Products
1989-01-01
Precious Products
Overview: In Precious Products we are subtly reminded of this country’s obsession with consumerism and narcissism. George, with his ever-present video-8 camera, attends an opening of Precious Products—an exhibition of artworks satirizing art as commodity. He leaves the art world of San Francisco to spend a Christmas holiday with friends in their opulent home. Ironically, this is the home of a celebrity (another kind of commodity), Russian defector/ballerina Natalia Makanova. Surrounded by all the luxuries of life and Makanova’s image, George muses about death. Panning over a dressing table laden with products, he focuses on a People magazine and comments, 'We are precious products, all of us.'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Oh Hi Anne
2017-01-01
Oh Hi Anne
Overview: 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 all their candid honesty leading up to and following George’s untimely death in 2011. McGuire floats their voices along a river of digital scribbles and her own voice in singer/songwriter mode. The beauty of the piece lies partly in how the voicemails, used as-is and chronologically, contain an entire narrative about love and loss in a DIY style reminiscent of the Kuchars.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Weather Watch
1991-01-01
Weather Watch
Overview: A window or two on the outside world is not enough, especially when you have such a lousy view of things as I had in this Oklahoma residential care home. The majesty of the console-model TV gave new dimension to the concept of time and space, and shrank it all down to a 21-inch lump of nature—a 21-incher that didn’t smell and permeate the atmosphere with discomfiture. A meditation on the elsewhere and wanting to be there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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That Woman
2018-08-06
That Woman
Overview: That Woman uses as source material the original Barbara Walters interview with Monica Lewinsky, which is intercut with a re-staging of the interview. Ms. Lewinsky is played by a women bearing a remarkable physical resemblance to the original, and Barbara Walters is played by George Kuchar. The make-up, costumes, set, lighting, and camera set-ups, are a facsimile of the original, albeit without the stunning high-production values displayed in the network original.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-06
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Bill's Hat
1967-01-01
Bill's Hat
Overview: "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’s only love: therefore it can’t harm you". Joyce Wieland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Chronicles
1969-01-01
Chronicles
Overview: Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Portrait of Genie
2008-01-01
Portrait of Genie
Overview: An ex-student of mine opens up in the privacy of her home and shows me her etchings (watercolors) as we talk of art and things that slip under the fabric of daily attire. - George Kuchar
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Secrets of the Shadow World
1999-08-31
Secrets of the Shadow World
Overview: This three-part mini-series explores the mysterious and the mundane in a splash of digital dioramas that wipe across the screen in a cascade of electronic barfs. Zeroing in on the paranormal theories of UFO author John A. Keel, this leisurely exposition, which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, sweeps the viewer into a candy-colored world of scintillating mysteries made all the more intriguing by culinary digressions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-31
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Webtide
2010-01-01
Webtide
Overview: Once again a seaside serenade of sloshing oils and simmering scallops fills the crannies of Cape Cod with dingle-berries of dubious delight! Join a crew of crustacean craving civilians as they shuck their shells of inhibitions to become the truly truculent trespassers of a salty sanctuary. Visit the chefs of chivalry as they skewer the squeamish with talons of titillating tidbits, each one a calorie crunching course in obese obtrusiveness and opulent oddness. Come one, come all, and sample a smorgasbord of simple pleasures in this vacation video of vicarious vacillations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Water Sports
2007-01-01
Water Sports
Overview: A trip to the Marin headlands at the Golden Gate of San Francisco Bay headlines this video diary. The viewer gets to eves and eye drop on various verbal and real time activities that are of a wet nature now and then. There’re boats and bodies and some spoken unspeakables amid the splendor of natural and unnatural expressions befitting the rim of a pacific paradise at low tide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Encyclopedia of the Blessed
1968-01-01
Encyclopedia of the Blessed
Overview: " ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images made in the likeness of myself by Grooms and Gross. Then it switches to the sandhills of Nebraska where fat cattle walk around. There the film explores Grooms' biggest construction, "The Chicago Installation." The film rolls relentlessly onward to the West Coast showing, for the first time on any screen, a theatrical production we three put in the University of California. It marks my directorial debut on the stage and Red Grooms' comeback after ten years of exile from live theatre." - George Kuchar
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Cult of the Cubicles
1987-01-01
Cult of the Cubicles
Overview: Writes Kuchar: "It's New York in the summer and I set out to track down some high school friends who have burrowed deep into the 'big apple.' The viewer gets to see how far they've eaten their way to the core in this 45-minute study of urban denizens in the grip of Newtonian damnation." Here, Kuchar visits his mother in the Bronx, chats and eats with old friends in their claustrophobic New York apartments, and muses about friendship, growing older, and a time when the "streets of New York were cleaner, and so was I."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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500 Millibars to Ecstasy
1989-01-01
500 Millibars to Ecstasy
Overview: The dark and sloppy side of touring college towns with your work. An internal expose of external secretions that unfortunately make it to the boob tube in full color.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Kingdom By The Sea
2002-01-01
The Kingdom By The Sea
Overview: The spirit of poets permeates the space/time occupied by an assortment of dinner engagements that occasionally erupt into physical or verbal assaults on the taste buds. Flowers of evil are absent from this foray into the spoken word, as the message is one of courage in the face of carnivorous tendencies. An archivist shares his dream with us while the dreamers dabble in their own brand of munchies meant to nourish rather than negate. Mortality hovers over the hovels of the hungry as poetry becomes as concrete as the pastry offered we mortals on planet Earth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Burnout
2003-01-01
Burnout
Overview: A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north. It is there that we witness the cooling fogs and diving mammals of maritime yore and sail free in winds of a nautical nature. A nature that fills the summer sky with twinkling tidbits and the tummy with protein rich denizens of Neptune’s soup. A tour of the towering turrets of tomorrow land and the spatial splendor of yesterday’s yearnings captured on both chemical and electrical media.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Scarlet Droppings
1991-08-01
Scarlet Droppings
Overview: Taped in Normal, Illinois, during the height of autumn, a snapshot of a young girl triggers a meditation on dying innocence and sizzling sausages as a low, winter sun ignites the smoke of greasy longings and meat-eating hunger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-01
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Point 'n Shoot
1989-01-01
Point 'n Shoot
Overview: A lavish home is visited, shutters click, bottoms are exposed, water splashes and a welcome wetness stains an area unquenched for so long. A jacuzzi bubbles to life in a bedroom community that floats to sleep on aqua-filled rubber.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Rocky Interlude
1990-01-01
Rocky Interlude
Overview: A trip to a barren landscape of jagged peaks and deep crevasses becomes a playground for an over-dressed hiker and his beefcake buddy as they secrete and imbibe fluids from various containers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Snap 'n Snatch
1990-01-01
Snap 'n Snatch
Overview: A sort-of music video that focuses on and under young women and men engaged in focusing video and movie cameras on other young men and women.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Award
1992-01-01
Award
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Uncle Evil
1996-01-01
Uncle Evil
Overview: The young and the innocent at the mercy of a palpable presence oozing menace and scarlet-stained goodness as a strawberry sundae melts under the glare of future hell-firestorms in search of kindling.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Supercell
2004-01-01
Supercell
Overview: Clouds abound in this short meditation on vaporous masses that flow across the borders of our windowpanes, leaving in their wake the wreckage of discarded diets and sugar coated emptiness. Into those holes that surround us with the sweetness of puffy dough we plunge into a landscape of desolation and rebirth, never again to deny the terror that piles up in the sky like a malignant mound of virgin pudding. A mass of revolving turbulence hell-bent on defying gravity in the name of vertical instability and electrical insanity. A supercell for the supersized who flee its windy wrath.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Song of the Whoopee Wind
2005-01-01
Song of the Whoopee Wind
Overview: A California Christmas season ushers in an array of holiday visuals designed to feed the hunger of soiled souls in search of truffle filled delights. A glittering seaport of electric lights helps the viewer to see through the murk of isolation as various species claw their way through the bountiful gifts that a rainy season delivers. Awash in joy and Juju statues, the unclean celebrate a rebirth dipped in chocolate as reptile and mammal unite in a dark hunger for foil wrapped ecstasy
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Inmate
1997-01-01
The Inmate
Overview: The splendor of a mountain lake is clouded by the musings of a brain in memory mode. The head relives the heartbreak of suburbia and the vacancies that fill every motel on the edge of nowhere. The body moves through a rainbow palette of indelible stains that color the journey with the hues of heaven and hell.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Metropolitan Monologues
2000-01-01
Metropolitan Monologues
Overview: The New York City summer is fueled by the sultry emanations of hot air that tumble off the tongues of potential thespians as they attempt to decipher the gastric guesswork embedded in the prose of the pre-production process. The video camera flits across the boroughs of NYC in a splash-dash sojourn of sumptuous banquets and bohemian bombast, while the down-to-earth wisdom of the seeing impaired helps to guide the protagonist into detours of wisdom befitting his putrid project. A theatrical play incubates in the balding head of the videomaker and as its presence makes itself felt among the various victims of his vision, we share with them the horror of advancing age and the descriptive diatribes toward the destiny of the decrepit damned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Hairy Horror
2009-01-01
The Hairy Horror
Overview: A chance encounter with a sober student reveals the mystery of a woodland wonder that has left a mark on his youthful psyche just as it leaves huge footprints on the forest floor. A short meditation on a tall terror in the trees that shade shadowy giants from the glare of sanity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Screamplay
1984-11-02
Screamplay
Overview: A talented writer, Edgar Allen, arrives in Hollywood with big dreams but is quickly pulled into a world of madness and depravity. A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the murders that occur in the new script by Edgar. Who will survive and what parts will be left for them?
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-02
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Thundercrack!
1975-12-29
Thundercrack!
Overview: An eccentric and alcoholic widow hosts a motley assortment of travelers - four men, three women and one gorilla - who arrive one eventful night to get out of a torrential rainstorm.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-29
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Coven of the Heathenites
2008-01-01
Coven of the Heathenites
Overview: A summer sojourn is fleshed out for maximum solar exposure in this video travelogue of sun, sea and epidermal exhibitionism. The states of mind and geographic localities are awash in a flow of imagery that rushes in on a tide of both Pacific and Atlantic origins. The people and places that bathe in this magnificence add both a sacred and profane froth into the salty brew; a witches brew of sculpted creations bubbling up with volatile violations from the depths of unfathomable needs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Law of Desire
1997-01-01
Law of Desire
Overview: The story of Trelita, a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss and a dead boyfriend (who she may or may not have murdered). It is the second episode made in the Clit-o-matic: The Adventures Of White Trash Girl! series about female superhero White Trash Girl. It has been referred to as part #3 in an ongoing series.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Going Nowhere
1992-01-01
Going Nowhere
Overview: Writes Kuchar: "It was my 50th birthday this year (1992) and my friend's birthday, so I explored our position in time and dusty place with a prognostication on future inertia." In this chapter of his ongoing Video-8 diary, Kuchar's birthday becomes an occasion to ponder mortality, dust, agoraphobia and relationships. Documenting the hilarious yet ultimately melancholy dramas of the everyday within the claustrophobic confines of his apartment, Kuchar may be going nowhere, but, as he notes, "at least we're going nowhere together."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Xmas 1987 New Years
1988-01-01
Xmas 1987 New Years
Overview: A sweet and savory journey in the company of George traveling from Christmas to New Years, stopping for snacks, drinks, and pets.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Season of Sorrow
1996-01-01
Season of Sorrow
Overview: Ice falls from the sky as tears plip-plop onto wall-to-wall carpeting. No degree of renovation can enliven the dead that we mourn in our hearts as the storm of the centuries assails our heads with memories of the passing parade that got rained on. A weather diary of May-time misery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Domain of the Pixel Pixies
1998-01-01
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
Overview: Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and chocolate within the confines of her concrete office. There is also a flood of imagery that flows in and out of art museums, viewing facilities, and eateries that are perpetually haunted by yours truly along with the spirit of hoboism that feeds on apple pie America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Bongwater
1998-04-18
Bongwater
Overview: David is an artist and a pothead. He's fallen in love with the beautiful and sexy Serena, and things are going simply splendidly until poor David's house burns down. Serena doesn't need the bad vibes, so she splits the scene and runs off to New York with rocker and junkie Tommy. Lonely David finally turns to the sweet, sweet comfort of marijuana and his strange menagerie of friends to forget about his lost home and love
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-18
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Xmas 1986
1986-12-25
Xmas 1986
Overview: "In Xmas 1986, George Kuchar’s mother Stella has come to stay with him for the holidays. After a series of dinners with friends, Stella’s repeated discussions about her shingles and Kuchar’s ominous film-noirish narration, Kuchar rescues the morale of a dinner party gone bad thanks to an undercooked ham by presenting his hosts with a very memorable holiday gift." – Kyle Riley
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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Maggots and Men
2009-06-21
Maggots and Men
Overview: A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-21
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Tropical Vulture
Tropical Vulture
Overview: Tropical Vulture is a cross-generational project which highlights the artistic influences between George Kuchar, a Bay Area legend of independent filmmaking, and Mexican artist Miguel Calderón. Tropical Vulture is an experimental narrative video, co-directed by both artists, and blends Hollywood glamour and drama with an all-too-real life approach, which creates and inspires a counterpoint of unattainable desire against unbearable actuality. The video, shot on location in Acapulco, utilizes a “lo-fi” aesthetic and playful use of nonprofessional actors. Tropical Vulture is entrenched in corruption, tourism, and post-colonialism and it uses a loose narrative to create a portrait of a relationship between student and teacher.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
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Dingleberry Jingles
1994-01-01
Dingleberry Jingles
Overview: In Dingleberry Jingles, George discusses all things Christmas with his cat, attends a wedding, and of course indulges in a holiday delicacy or two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Tomorrow Always Comes
2006-01-01
Tomorrow Always Comes
Overview: A 1940s campy film noir sex romp comedy thriller. Harlem, Chinatown, Park Ave. It’s the same old story. Boy meets girl, boy gets dead, girl gets rich. Real rich. With Bill Rice, George Kuchar, James Tigger! Ferguson, Armen Ra, Mimi Gross, Megan Pearson, Mariana Newhard, Kimberly Lewis, Meghan Love, Jenny Weaver, Amalia Rosa, and Royston Scott. Music by Marc Ribot and Brett Flute. — Anthology Film Archives
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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