Mike Kuchar Movies

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

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

A woman discovers her husband cheating.

An evocative 16mm short shot during a visit to Nepal.

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle...

In a garden of roses and memorabilia from darkest Africa, a man and woman ponder the joy of cooking and the companionship of cats. Goodies for the...

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

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...

'Misery' doesn't like 'company' -- but 'company' does love a 'party', so come join in on a catastrophic celebration, and do 'hang on' tight --...

[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives

Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...

“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...

Be careful when you go out into the surf in a skimpy thong... the current can be treacherous and turbulent as is the human heart!

This breezy and flamboyant essay about an afternoon rendezvous is pure candy for the eyes.

A hell of a lot more of you through a keyhole!!

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

He felt both dead and alive... having 'died' and having come back to the space of his 'living.'

Dark, domestic tensions need the cleansing rays of a bright summer afternoon.