Mike Kuchar Movies

Part three of Mike Kuchar's Heat Rash: This audio, visual laxative empties the mind of inhibitions to allow the spectator entrance into the whirlpool...

"...Roy has set in and spread across the fabric of their lives."

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

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...

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 Tub Named Desire," the first movie with Donna Kerness, does not exist anymore, except for one 8mm print that was in George Kuchar's possession....

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

He sighs for strange and hidden cities whose walls are pink stone, inlaid with opals, ebony and silver, and for altars where the body is worshiped...

"...will somebody lend him their sins, because his old worn out ones have become tiresome."

There is more than one way to get 'lost' in the woods.

There is a garden in the dark hunger of his psyche where forbidden fruit grows.

Amid the silence of a pastel hued room, a soul, fully-fleshed, gathers secrets whispered by the moon over his cool bedsheets.

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

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

Once upon a time in the shelled carcass of a man, the Phoenix will rise and fall... and RISE and FALL!

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

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

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