Mike Kuchar Movies

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

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

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...

One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids." One day, fleshapoid Xar runs wild,...

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

This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the...

A documentary portrait of filmmaker George Kuchar conducting a tour of his apartment where he displays memorabilia and his toys which were used for...

“It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle...

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

Artists with brushes need light to paint a picture, but human feelings function just as well in the dark.

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

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!

This outdoor meditation is drenched with sunlight, carressed by breezes and blessed with a young man who discovers his special "role" in Time's...

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

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.

Playwright and performance artist Marc Arthur paves a color-saturated path from 'awake consciousness' to sleeping 'dreamscape'.

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

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...

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