George Kuchar Movies
- 2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis6.62007HD
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
- 1990
Rocky Interlude
Rocky Interlude01990HD
A trip to a barren landscape of jagged peaks and deep crevasses becomes a playground for an over-dressed hiker and his beefcake buddy as they secrete...
- 1970
Web of Fire
Web of Fire01970HD
Short film.
- 2009
Zombies of Zanzibar
Zombies of Zanzibar02009HD
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...
- 2009
Burrito Bay
Burrito Bay02009HD
This video diary/travelogue centers on a tropical trip to Acapulco where yours truly hits both sand and surf with maximum impact. The actual movie...
- 1996
Vermin of the Vortex
Vermin of the Vortex01996HD
Alienation in academia beneath the chandeliered opulence of a political correctional facility that caters to clashing cultures with chicken fajitas...
- 2001
Honey Bunnies on Ice
Honey Bunnies on Ice02001HD
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...
- 1985
Ascension of the Demonoids
Ascension of the Demonoids41985HD
George Kuchar received his only funding grant for this film ($20,000 from the NEA), and so, freed from the usual financial restraints, he was...
- 1991
Scarlet Droppings
Scarlet Droppings61991HD
Taped in Normal, Illinois, during the height of autumn, a snapshot of a young girl triggers a meditation on dying innocence and sizzling sausages as...
- 1966
Leisure
Leisure01966HD
A dramatized social commentary with the horrifying impact of a three-hundred ton chunk of margarine.
- 1983
Cattle Mutilation
Cattle Mutilation7.21983HD
Against the background of a grisly mystery, four people face a growing sense of panic and uncleanliness. Part documentary, part "cartoon," part B...
- 1991
Gastronomic Getaway
Gastronomic Getaway81991HD
Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside...
- 2010
Lingo of the Lost
Lingo of the Lost02010HD
This turbulent and colorful drama about the proud and the profane was made with an international group of students at the school where I've been...
- 1978
Prescrition in Blue
Prescrition in Blue01978HD
Kuchar short.
- 2003
Butter Balls
Butter Balls02003HD
"To counteract the talkie I had done with graduate student the day before, this undergrad project has no dialogue but just a steady stream of images...
- 1962
Night of the Bomb
Night of the Bomb01962HD
The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.
- 2013
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton5.62013HD
A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual...
- 2003
Burnout
Burnout02003HD
A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north. It is...
- 1994
Holidaze, 1994
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George spends quality time with his friends Karen and Carla in this unconventional, glitchy, collaged holiday video. HOLIDAZE filters a gift...
- 1985
Motel Capri
Motel Capri01985HD
Mother Superior commits murder to save a soul from eternal damnation. Motel Capri was original material improvised as we went along. Scenes were...