Mike Kuchar Movies

...It was time to chase One's shadow back into sunlight. -Mike Kuchar

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

A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him...

Although too long by half, this documentary is subtitled "A Trip Through Lotti's Life" and that is essentially what it is. Although done in a style...

...They'd rather climb to the stars, than give their souls to a soulless world

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

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

A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.

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

A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!

A vain, self centered mother competes with her daughter in the world of carnivorous men and sleazy movies.

BIRD IN THE SKY is a gritty, poetic tale of a young man’s spiritual struggle on the streets of New York City. Rob has been given a second...

In the depths of night lurks a beautiful fever that heats a man's blood.

“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I...

The movie takes a rather negative look at things despite the fact that it was shot in reversal film. It depicts the turbulent relationships 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.

The Vagabond...what does he seek? - ask the River, ask the Wind - but don't ask Him!

Ripe fruit in sweaty socks; soft eyes, stained and suffering in the origin of consciousness, and a soul needing refrigeration, for it has nearly gone...

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...

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and...