Movies: Mike Kuchar

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....

I Was a Teenage Rumpot was made in 1960, when George and Mike, the twin brothers Kuchar, were all of eighteen years old. Though their films would grow in thematic complexity, Rumpot already shows the visual energy, dynamic music, and anarchic, twiste...

A 'poet' and a 'painter' discover a malign muse, but their fear and anger keep them young....

...What once was for him "real," is now but a "dream," --for the day comes when we find ourselves stranded with memories....

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!"...

A ripe lad embarks on a raw correspondence with his mirrored image, and thus: the dialogue is "fleshed out" to its full potential....

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

Return to the House of Pain documents my walking through the turf and sludge of the Big Apple and many worm holes... I chomp my way back west and gnaw on all that sinks stomachward and beyond in vertiginous aching....

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

OverRiped words from the lips of an OverExposed boy decorates this litany in pink with purple bruises....

In the serene zone between twilight and dawn, a lullaby of thoughts floats beneath a blanket of stars....

Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a synthesis of the various aspects and moods of the story. The sum total of the fragments expresses the atmos...

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

Like all Men, he struggles against his nature....

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

Two earthbound bodies soul-surf into a new age of enlightenment....

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

Paint drips and body fluids ooze in this "tell all" and "hide nothing" documentary about two San Francisco males....

An eclectic compilation of home movies and early cinematic experiments. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. “From the age of 12 onward until 17 (the restless years) the Kuchar brothers li...

A sensitive soul with skin receptive to the World's natural elements and who has a mind open for expansive contemplation, embarks on an "inner journey" toward the New Age of awareness....