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...

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...

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.

Green spills over purple ridges and into deep cut valleys. Blue surges up from rounds and hollows, blending with incandescent pink plains, revealing...

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...

A House Wife's hum-drum world dissolves away into a thorny Passion Play of miraculous visions.

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

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

A 16mm black and white remake of an 8mm color film done years earlier, this time with students enrolled in a 'dramatic narrative' summer workshop....

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...

A young man yearns for a mysterious lover.

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

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

Dan Carbone sings Debbie and the Demons

Two strippers decide a walk in the park might lift their spirits, which do get a big boost when they contemplate a park monument dedicated to sailors...

Four women in the throes of frustrated sexual desire. Not making fun of them but rather sending up the absurdities of passion and the ways in which...

An eclectic compilation of home movies and early cinematic experiments. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film...

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

Dark, domestic tensions need the cleansing rays of a bright summer afternoon.