Mike Kuchar Movies

A mother and daughter, both dressed in "shocking pink", clash over men and money.

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

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

Enter a shimmering forest and encounter the Pot Boiling turbulence of pre-history tribes in conflict. See sacrificial virgins, volcanoes, knife...

"...will somebody lend him their sins, because his old worn out ones have become tiresome."

Videomaker and spoken word performer David Finkelstein sleepwalks down into subconscious corridors.

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

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!"

He peels away layers of secrets to you for what you are, and he likes scars because they tell stories.

A desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she...

Blue skies, babbling brooks, and a big book in a field full of flowers is the departure point for this video.

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.

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

High above the far horizon, a beacon burns cold, bright and calm.

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

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

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

...Somewhere inside him something slumbers; the myths, the beliefs that flow, fuse and burn through him.

Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...

Based on a short story by Charles Bukowski from the collection "Tales of Ordinary Madness."