Mike Kuchar Movies

Starring George Kuchar as "Hunk", Mrs. Ruby B. Davis as "Aunt Ruth", and introducing Melinda McDowell as the much-abused, sex bomb "Goldenrod".

A kaleidoscopic concoction done with improvising actors.

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...

Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had a wonderful time working together....

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

An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.

Sex, sleaze, drugs, blood, and much, much more!

They wait for voices to reach them, touch them!

A contemplative, static walk in the woods.

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

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

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

An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

Two earthbound bodies soul-surf into a new age of enlightenment.

Waiting to die and waiting to live is the same thing to him that chants: "Let me not be mad... let me not be MAD... LET ME NOT BE MAD!"

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.

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

Like ships in a harbor, men come and go in relationships. But, as one character says to another character who is heartbroken: "You sucked enough...

Things "go bump in broad daylight" as archetypical characters romp about in a sunny forest...doll like things and beast men.