Mike Kuchar Movies

A visit with the inimitable Mike Kuchar.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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...

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

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

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...

...What once was for him "real," is now but a "dream," --for the day comes when we find ourselves stranded with memories.

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

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

Earth's "garden" is fragrant with temptations but has far too many "thorns". He got "stung" and fell...got up...and fell, again and again!

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...

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

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

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

He is mute flesh that the stroking of fingers can bring to sing.

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

They walk through "life", sometimes with no "compass" in hand and become "lost".

Big…Rousing…Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own boys in a Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd Thorner...

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...