Mike Kuchar Filmes

A high-spirited romp through the (former) campus of San Francisco Art Institute, with two films each from George and Mike Kuchar. Features:...

A club for misfits who descend into a psychedelic underworld. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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

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!

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!"

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

A House Wife's hum-drum world dissolves away into a thorny Passion Play of miraculous visions.

A "birthday boy's" poetic yearnings on paper translate into a quest for perfection."

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

Two strippers decide a walk in the park might lift their spirits, which do get a big boost when they contemplate a park monument dedicated to sailors...

"...Talking to Oneself in the mirror when down in the 'mental dumps.'"

Dan Carbone sings Debbie and the Demons

An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.

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

Things "go bump in broad daylight" as archetypical characters romp about in a sunny forest...doll like things and beast men.

One's "softest parts" are "scooped out and eaten alive".

It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existance is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions...

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

...They had their source in tangled vegetable matter, countless rapes and invasions and enjoy good wine with the girls.

A contemplative, static walk in the woods.