Mike Kuchar Movies

He peels away layers of secrets to you for what you are, and he likes scars because they tell stories.

I Was a Teenage Rumpot was made in 1960, when George and Mike, the twin brothers Kuchar, were all of eighteen years old. Though their films would...

A broken god on the stone slab in a desert, waiting for "he" that will dig for him; wipe the sand from his handsome face.

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...

...It was time to chase One's shadow back into sunlight. -Mike Kuchar

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

Dialogue taken from the Bible is put in the mouths of three souls in a modern apartment, who must deal with a "fall from grace."

“It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle...

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...

A contemplative, static walk in the woods.

AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.

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

The dialogue for this production, featuring Cupid, is taken from the pages of a personal diary found under a chair.

A rose scented breeze enters a young man's, winding its cool arms around him... Together they will roam the darkness of his life.

One's "softest parts" are "scooped out and eaten alive".

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...

He is Earth, Sky, and the Universe. He is Creation's creator.

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

"Devils"..."Angels," when they sleep they dream not of Heaven, but of us. —Mike Kuchar

Nymphs and Satyrs are conjured back into activity when poetry is recited and fluffy clouds sail above the contemporary, domestic landscape.