Movies: George Kuchar

George Kuchar received his only funding grant for this film ($20,000 from the NEA), and so, freed from the usual financial restraints, he was determined to have a good time and make a “spectacle” with “tons of color” and dazzling superimpositions. A ...

Portrait of siblings George and Mike Kuchar, who have made a name for themselves in the US underground scene with low-budget films....

Waves crash on rocks as tongues flap in the wind about all things cinematic. People chirp and chew in various states of dress and undress as the climate shifts from coast to coast on the tide of a national pleasure/treasure: film festivals, lectures ...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min....

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...

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 all their candid honesty leading up to and following George’s untimely death in 2011. McGuire floats th...

A full production: sync-sound drama with cast, crew, color neg., and 16mm wide screen cut-off (normal projector and lens). My intention was to follow James Agee's idea to present "an imaginary story against a background of reality." The imaginary sto...

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

Blend of documentary and domestic melodrama featuring a series of sexually charged vignettes inspired by a piece of toilet graffiti. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016....

A very black mix of comedy about relationships, the media, children's beauty pageants, sex change operations and personal problems....

An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness....

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 the gastric guesswork embedded in the prose of the pre-production process. The video camera flits ac...

Eclipse of the Sun Virgin is a 16mm, film; directed by George Kuchar. The film is based on dealing with a poignant self-identity and the feeling of void between pornography....

Experimental short...

Big…Rousing…Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own boys in a Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd Thorner sing the title song. You’ll come out whistling from both ends....

Mary was a good girl until she decides to kill all the "sexist pigs". She of course encounters many of which, and enjoys killing them....

Holed up in a Oklahoma motel room, George Kuchar witnesses the tornado-conjuring power of a talking ceramic figurine....

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 crew of crustacean craving civilians as they shuck their shells of inhibitions to become the truly tr...

Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside pastry. Majestic mineral deposits rise from the salt laden waters as the bloated and bulimic revel in nat...

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