George Kuchar
Eyaziwa Nge: Directing
Usuku lokuzalwa: 1942-08-31
Indawo yokuzalwa: New York, New York
Obeye aziwe njengo:
Arizona Byways
A cactus-strewn desert becomes the backdrop for this series of filmic stopovers. Great natural beauty clashes with manufactured outdoorsmanship, as a...
Khulula : 2001.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.304
The Warming of the Hell House
A trip across the bay to Concord yields a harvest of non-fruit-like beings who celebrate a housewarming that simmers with macho machinations and...
Khulula : 1990.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.486
Foto Spread
A photographer comes to my home to take pictures and gets a lensful. His mouth and his shutter snap away as I aim my finest attributes at his cold...
Khulula : 1991.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.262
Christmas 85
Another Holiday Diary film from George Kuchar
Khulula : 1985.12.25Ukuthandwa : 0.18
Kiss of the Veggie Vixen
A portrait of Marion Eaton, film and stage actress, etched with a green thumb and a brown nose.
Khulula : 1990.01.02Ukuthandwa : 0.897
All Smiles and Sadness
McGuire constructs a murky black and white soap-opera world of endless, timeless, and placeless limbo, where the characters talk to each other...
Khulula : 1999.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.221
The Shadow Glass
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...
Khulula : 1976.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.343
River Windows
"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the...
Khulula : 1966.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.595
Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony
A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our...
Khulula : 1975.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.315
A Night with Gilda Peck
A vehicle for the talented Mrs. Kathleen Hohalek, as the tenant of the Pyramid Penthouse, with George Kuchar and Bob Hohalek as the burglars, "Slug,"...
Khulula : 1974.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.436
The Craven Sluck
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...
Khulula : 1967.12.21Ukuthandwa : 1.182
Sins of the Fleshapoids
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,...
Khulula : 1965.01.04Ukuthandwa : 0.814
Brakhage
BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic...
Khulula : 1998.09.17Ukuthandwa : 1.386
I, an Actress
An actress and a director run through a melodramatic scene, speaking to a mannequin.
Khulula : 1977.12.09Ukuthandwa : 0.95
Wild Night in El Reno
"In the late spring of each year the Great Plains states of the U.S. experience a season characterised by destructive tornadoes of awesome force....
Khulula : 1977.09.06Ukuthandwa : 0.238
Sherman Acres
A drama in six episodes involving psychological breakdowns, marital showdowns, and messy obsessions. The characters include a wayward priest, a...
Khulula : 1992.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.343
Nudes: A Sketchbook
A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.
Khulula : 1974.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.631
Taboo: The Single and the LP
Blend of documentary and domestic melodrama featuring a series of sexually charged vignettes inspired by a piece of toilet graffiti. Preserved by...
Khulula : 1980.01.01Ukuthandwa : 2.942
Anita Needs Me
An overheated tale of lust, guilt, and Mom, made as a response to the French New Wave.
Khulula : 1964.03.11Ukuthandwa : 0.199
George Kuchar: An Interview
Since the 1980s, Kuchar has been creating brilliantly edited, hilarious, and often diaristic tapes made with dime-store props and not-so-special...
Khulula : 2005.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.566
Return to the House of Pain
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...
Khulula : 1988.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.587
Weather Diary 1
George Kuchar travels to Oklahoma in search of tornadoes, spends most of his time watching TV and eating food.
Khulula : 1986.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.317
Galaxie
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....
Khulula : 1966.09.03Ukuthandwa : 0.636
Born of the Wind
A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.
Khulula : 1964.03.04Ukuthandwa : 0.749
Vault of Vapors
One of Kuchars weather diary series out in Oklahoma. The tone is wistful, the surroundings wispy (with some puffs of pungency). The TV is on and the...
Khulula : 2009.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.216
The Butchered Beefcake
This video diary visits two sites that exhibited Kuchars visual works this past year, culminating at the VOLTA ART SHOW in N.Y.C., where he sold some...
Khulula : 2011.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.42
The Nutrient Express
A trip to Winnipeg introduces the viewer to moments of Canadian cuisine and to the easily digestible tidbits that make up the WNDX Film/Video...
Khulula : 2010.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.48
Tummy Ache Times
It's the season of joy once again and this video depicts the tasty and the troublesome in big, heaping spoonfuls. Witness a social whirlpool of...
Khulula : 2010.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.495
Calorie Cottage
Encompassing both Thanksgiving, Christmas and the exploding New Year's Eve celebrations, this holiday video is chock full of chicken and chatter...
Khulula : 2010.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.299
Delectable Destinations
This time, the call of the west sends Kuchar packing to Oregon, California and Arizona. You too can experience the dizzy delights of a whirlwind tour...
Khulula : 2010.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.288
Vintage Visits
Another edition to Kuchars weather diary series, this particular one has more social intercourse occurring in the prairie hovel which houses the...
Khulula : 2010.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.355
Hitchcocked!
A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.
Khulula : 2006.08.11Ukuthandwa : 1.163
Underground New York
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...
Khulula : 1968.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.926
The Unclean
Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub
Khulula : 1967.08.12Ukuthandwa : 0.488
Weather Diary 3
Set in and around a Reno motel, the tape records George's growing friendship with a young weather expert.
Khulula : 1988.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.295
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual...
Khulula : 2013.03.09Ukuthandwa : 1.384
The Mongreloid
A man, his dog, and the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on the landscape. Not even time can wash away the residue of...
Khulula : 1978.09.21Ukuthandwa : 2.03
George
George (1976, revised in 1988) is a portrait of George Kuchar composed on a J-K optical printer with 4 scenes always running simultaneously through...
Khulula : 1976.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.717
Confessions
Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Khulula : 1972.03.15Ukuthandwa : 1.071
Boggy Depot
Two men hypnotize their roommate and attempt to force him to fall in love.
Khulula : 1973.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.341
Sparkle's Tavern
Siblings hide their ownership of a bordello from their mother. When she is visited by a man who shares the joys of sexual enlightenment with her, her...
Khulula : 1985.06.01Ukuthandwa : 1.946
East by Southwest
A trip to Boston to visit a local filmmaker in his studio is followed by a journey to the cinematic facilities of SUNY College in Purchase, NY, and...
Khulula : 1970.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.68
True Blue and Dreamy
"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle...
Khulula : 1974.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.57
Peed Into the Wind
“PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and...
Khulula : 1972.01.01Ukuthandwa : 1.139
Eat My Makeup!
With George Kuchar, Marie Losier, Jason Livingston, Paul Shepard. Five winsome damsels picnic on the roof of a warehouse in charming Long Island...
Khulula : 2010.04.10Ukuthandwa : 0.273
Sunset After Dark
A struggling screenwriter finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.
Khulula : 1996.01.01Ukuthandwa : 1.697
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with...
Khulula : 1987.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.417
Beaver Fever
A short comedy by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Khulula : 1974.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.622
Wieners and Buns Musical
A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Khulula : 1972.05.12Ukuthandwa : 0.632
Electrocute Your Stars
In this dream portrait, George Kuchar travels through snow confetti, strobe flashes and artificial wind as he describes his weather diaries. Then,...
Khulula : 2004.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.44
365 Day Project
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
Khulula : 2007.12.31Ukuthandwa : 1.825
Lust for Ecstasy
“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...
Khulula : 1964.03.04Ukuthandwa : 1.439
Confessions of Babette
An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.
Khulula : 1963.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.377
The Slasher
An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.
Khulula : 1958.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.33
Night of the Bomb
The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.
Khulula : 1962.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.347
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
A documentary portrait of filmmaker George Kuchar conducting a tour of his apartment where he displays memorabilia and his toys which were used for...
Khulula : 1983.04.01Ukuthandwa : 0.994
Hold Me While I'm Naked
Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every...
Khulula : 1966.04.23Ukuthandwa : 2.297
Divine Trash
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
Khulula : 2000.03.31Ukuthandwa : 2.567
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Khulula : 1986.02.22Ukuthandwa : 2.611
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
Khulula : 2007.04.11Ukuthandwa : 1.377
Swamp
Swamp uses the soap opera format to play with the structure and expectations of the family melodrama. Following the melodramatic format that "if it...
Khulula : 1990.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.598
It Came from Kuchar
It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike...
Khulula : 2009.09.22Ukuthandwa : 1.309
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bronx. Get to know the Kuchars, casually...
Khulula : 2006.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.277
Cellar Sinema
A descent into the blackness of the projected image and the curators who flick the switches and grease up all moveable parts for hot action when the...
Khulula : 1994.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.584
A Passage to Wetness
An island. A mountain. A City of Angels who scoop up the pellets dropped by other winged creatures.
Khulula : 1990.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.459
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
A wide-ranging look at pictures I collect on my walls and in my head. A look at pictures I concoct with my students at the San Francisco Art...
Khulula : 1989.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.358
Gastronomic Getaway
Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside...
Khulula : 1991.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.957
Rainy Season
Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things...
Khulula : 1987.11.19Ukuthandwa : 0.223
Indian Summer
The colors of fall are muted by the fog of a lingering summer and the memory of that which is dark and naked among the dappled crimson.
Khulula : 1991.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.164
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...
Khulula : 1989.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.307
Migration of the Blubberoids
"The whiteness of winter cannot bury the blubbery things that splash and frolic among the frozen memories of Heathen harvests, in a land haunted by...
Khulula : 1989.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.242
Portrait of Ramona
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...
Khulula : 1971.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.716
Tootsies in Autumn
[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives
Khulula : 1963.09.23Ukuthandwa : 0.919
The Secret of Wendel Samson
A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him...
Khulula : 1966.07.01Ukuthandwa : 0.872
Urchins of Ungawa
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...
Khulula : 1994.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.886
Visitation Rites
Alone in an Oklahoma motel room with a mute companion, the talkative one speaks the language of memory as pussycats feast from a canned cornucopia....
Khulula : 2003.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.358
Chigger Country
Pastures filled with the bounty of a meateater's fantasy fill the screen with bellows of bovine origin as testosterone-driven madness runs rampant on...
Khulula : 1999.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.12
3 Stories About Evil
A very black mix of comedy about relationships, the media, children's beauty pageants, sex change operations and personal problems.
Khulula : 2008.03.26Ukuthandwa : 0.595
Chili Line Stops Here
A journey that begins in a Kansas City hotel and ends up in New Mexico. The bumpy ride is fuelled with libidinous juices as it lurches through...
Khulula : 1989.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.134
Precious Products
In Precious Products we are subtly reminded of this country’s obsession with consumerism and narcissism. George, with his ever-present video-8...
Khulula : 1989.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.231
Oh Hi Anne
An epic tale of love and loss. Made using voicemails the Kuchar brothers left on her home answering machine, the artist reveals George and Mike in...
Khulula : 2017.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.333
Weather Watch
A window or two on the outside world is not enough, especially when you have such a lousy view of things as I had in this Oklahoma residential care...
Khulula : 1991.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.238
That Woman
That Woman uses as source material the original Barbara Walters interview with Monica Lewinsky, which is intercut with a re-staging of the interview....
Khulula : 2018.08.06Ukuthandwa : 0.325
Bill's Hat
"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...
Khulula : 1967.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.527
Chronicles
Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.
Khulula : 1969.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.407
Portrait of Genie
An ex-student of mine opens up in the privacy of her home and shows me her etchings (watercolors) as we talk of art and things that slip under the...
Khulula : 2008.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.37
Secrets of the Shadow World
This three-part mini-series explores the mysterious and the mundane in a splash of digital dioramas that wipe across the screen in a cascade of...
Khulula : 1999.08.31Ukuthandwa : 0.492
Webtide
Once again a seaside serenade of sloshing oils and simmering scallops fills the crannies of Cape Cod with dingle-berries of dubious delight! Join a...
Khulula : 2010.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.434
Water Sports
A trip to the Marin headlands at the Golden Gate of San Francisco Bay headlines this video diary. The viewer gets to eves and eye drop on various...
Khulula : 2007.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.453
Encyclopedia of the Blessed
" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific...
Khulula : 1968.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.608
Cult of the Cubicles
Writes Kuchar: "It's New York in the summer and I set out to track down some high school friends who have burrowed deep into the 'big apple.' The...
Khulula : 1987.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.001
500 Millibars to Ecstasy
The dark and sloppy side of touring college towns with your work. An internal expose of external secretions that unfortunately make it to the boob...
Khulula : 1989.01.01Ukuthandwa : 1.017
Burnout
A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north. It is...
Khulula : 2003.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.654
The Kingdom By The Sea
The spirit of poets permeates the space/time occupied by an assortment of dinner engagements that occasionally erupt into physical or verbal assaults...
Khulula : 2002.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.001
Scarlet Droppings
Taped in Normal, Illinois, during the height of autumn, a snapshot of a young girl triggers a meditation on dying innocence and sizzling sausages as...
Khulula : 1991.08.01Ukuthandwa : 0.884
Point 'n Shoot
A lavish home is visited, shutters click, bottoms are exposed, water splashes and a welcome wetness stains an area unquenched for so long. A jacuzzi...
Khulula : 1989.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.197
Award
A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.
Khulula : 1992.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.157
Uncle Evil
The young and the innocent at the mercy of a palpable presence oozing menace and scarlet-stained goodness as a strawberry sundae melts under the...
Khulula : 1996.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.256
Snap 'n Snatch
A sort-of music video that focuses on and under young women and men engaged in focusing video and movie cameras on other young men and women.
Khulula : 1990.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.001
Rocky Interlude
A trip to a barren landscape of jagged peaks and deep crevasses becomes a playground for an over-dressed hiker and his beefcake buddy as they secrete...
Khulula : 1990.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.14
Supercell
Clouds abound in this short meditation on vaporous masses that flow across the borders of our windowpanes, leaving in their wake the wreckage of...
Khulula : 2004.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.314
Song of the Whoopee Wind
A California Christmas season ushers in an array of holiday visuals designed to feed the hunger of soiled souls in search of truffle filled delights....
Khulula : 2005.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.376
The Inmate
The splendor of a mountain lake is clouded by the musings of a brain in memory mode. The head relives the heartbreak of suburbia and the vacancies...
Khulula : 1997.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.845
Metropolitan Monologues
The New York City summer is fueled by the sultry emanations of hot air that tumble off the tongues of potential thespians as they attempt to decipher...
Khulula : 2000.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.698
The Hairy Horror
A chance encounter with a sober student reveals the mystery of a woodland wonder that has left a mark on his youthful psyche just as it leaves huge...
Khulula : 2009.01.01Ukuthandwa : 1.589
Screamplay
A talented writer, Edgar Allen, arrives in Hollywood with big dreams but is quickly pulled into a world of madness and depravity. A detective...
Khulula : 1985.11.01Ukuthandwa : 1.286
Thundercrack!
An eccentric and alcoholic widow hosts a motley assortment of travelers - four men, three women and one gorilla - who arrive one eventful night to...
Khulula : 1975.12.29Ukuthandwa : 0
Coven of the Heathenites
A summer sojourn is fleshed out for maximum solar exposure in this video travelogue of sun, sea and epidermal exhibitionism. The states of mind and...
Khulula : 2008.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.892
Law of Desire
The story of Trelita, a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss and a dead boyfriend (who she may or may not have murdered). It is the second episode...
Khulula : 1997.01.01Ukuthandwa : 1.301
Going Nowhere
Writes Kuchar: "It was my 50th birthday this year (1992) and my friend's birthday, so I explored our position in time and dusty place with a...
Khulula : 1992.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.391
Season of Sorrow
Ice falls from the sky as tears plip-plop onto wall-to-wall carpeting. No degree of renovation can enliven the dead that we mourn in our hearts as...
Khulula : 1996.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.001
Xmas 1987 New Years
A sweet and savory journey in the company of George traveling from Christmas to New Years, stopping for snacks, drinks, and pets.
Khulula : 1988.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.001
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...
Khulula : 1998.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.535
Bongwater
David is an artist and a pothead. He's fallen in love with the beautiful and sexy Serena, and things are going simply splendidly until poor David's...
Khulula : 1998.04.18Ukuthandwa : 4.291
Xmas 1986
"In Xmas 1986, George Kuchar’s mother Stella has come to stay with him for the holidays. After a series of dinners with friends, Stella’s...
Khulula : 1986.12.25Ukuthandwa : 0.741
Maggots and Men
A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of...
Khulula : 2009.06.21Ukuthandwa : 0.424
Tropical Vulture
Tropical Vulture is a cross-generational project which highlights the artistic influences between George Kuchar, a Bay Area legend of independent...
Khulula : 1970.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.109