George Kuchar Movies

  • 1968
    The Mammal Palace

    The Mammal Palace

    The Mammal Palace

    01968HD

    The movie takes a rather negative look at things despite the fact that it was shot in reversal film. It depicts the turbulent relationships of...

    The Mammal Palace
  • 1997
    Law of Desire

    Law of Desire

    Law of Desire

    01997HD

    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...

    Law of Desire
  • 1967
    The Craven Sluck

    The Craven Sluck

    The Craven Sluck

    6.3331967HD

    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...

    The Craven Sluck
  • 2001
    Honey Bunnies on Ice

    Honey Bunnies on Ice

    Honey Bunnies on Ice

    02001HD

    A winter chill sets in making the furry residents of various dwelling places a center of affection and reflection. The images conjured up are steeped...

    Honey Bunnies on Ice
  • 2008
    Pictographic Piles

    Pictographic Piles

    Pictographic Piles

    02008HD

    As I rummage through a stack of photos the memories of this and that plus who’s what and where rush in helter skelter. There’s a lot to...

    Pictographic Piles
  • 1990
    Swamp

    Swamp

    Swamp

    01990HD

    Swamp uses the soap opera format to play with the structure and expectations of the family melodrama. Following the melodramatic format that "if it...

    Swamp
  • 1978
    Forever and Always

    Forever and Always

    Forever and Always

    81978HD

    A marriage on the rocks that hurts the heart almost as much as the colors hurt the eye. “[A] full color portrait of a break-up that comes...

    Forever and Always
  • 1974
    A Night with Gilda Peck

    A Night with Gilda Peck

    A Night with Gilda Peck

    11974HD

    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,"...

    A Night with Gilda Peck
  • 1967
    The Unclean

    The Unclean

    The Unclean

    01967HD

    Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

    The Unclean
  • 1964
    Anita Needs Me

    Anita Needs Me

    Anita Needs Me

    01964HD

    An overheated tale of lust, guilt, and Mom, made as a response to the French New Wave.

    Anita Needs Me
  • 1965
    Sins of the Fleshapoids

    Sins of the Fleshapoids

    Sins of the Fleshapoids

    6.0671965HD

    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,...

    Sins of the Fleshapoids
  • 2008
    Seaside Show

    Seaside Show

    Seaside Show

    102008HD

    Waves crash on rocks as tongues flap in the wind about all things cinematic. People chirp and chew in various states of dress and undress as the...

    Seaside Show
  • 2011
    Empire of Evil

    Empire of Evil

    Empire of Evil

    02011HD

    Students of the San Francisco Art Institute clearly enjoy acting out Kuchar’s idiosynchratic film noir satire. Combining a love triangle with...

    Empire of Evil
  • 1968
    Encyclopedia of the Blessed

    Encyclopedia of the Blessed

    Encyclopedia of the Blessed

    01968HD

    " 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...

    Encyclopedia of the Blessed
  • 2013
    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    4.8332013HD

    A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual...

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
  • 2009
    Zombies of Zanzibar

    Zombies of Zanzibar

    Zombies of Zanzibar

    02009HD

    Made with my production class at the art asylum called the San Francisco Art Institute, this wide-screen drama of run-a-way spectacle and crazed...

    Zombies of Zanzibar
  • 1962
    A WOMAN DISTRESSED

    A WOMAN DISTRESSED

    A WOMAN DISTRESSED

    01962HD

    An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

    A WOMAN DISTRESSED
  • 1972
    Confessions

    Confessions

    Confessions

    5.31972HD

    "Just as outrageous is Curt McDowell's CONFESSIONS. McDowell, a graduate student at San Francisco Art Institute, opens his film with a confession to...

    Confessions
  • 1987
    Rainy Season

    Rainy Season

    Rainy Season

    01987HD

    Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things...

    Rainy Season
  • 1994
    Route 666

    Route 666

    Route 666

    51994HD

    In a motel room, things start to get alive.

    Route 666