Mike Kuchar Movies

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

Something lies yet unwritten within a poet who lost that 'spark' of having been born brand new onto a sacred stage.

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

The windy adventures of a dog in a sea of grass beneath blue skies.

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

A bunch of Punk Rockers puke up all sorts of stuff.

A "painter" casts out the demons that haunt his canvases and who creep into his bed at night.

He made some 'love'....where has it all gone? --Mike Kuchar

Four women in the throes of frustrated sexual desire. Not making fun of them but rather sending up the absurdities of passion and the ways in which...

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

A contemplative, static walk in the woods.

In this thespian workout, a troop of stage actors improvises within a kaleidoscopic zone of warped spaces.

Frisco anxiously awaits the pyrotechnic birth of a New Year while the remnants of holiday greenery still burn bright in all the right places. One of...

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

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of...

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

Offer a pagan god only simple flowers of spring and the sparkling diamonds and opals of morning dew strung on the threads of the spider... and fear...

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...

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

His written letters will fade at the first light; if indeed he is dreaming the world!