George Kuchar Movies

Kuchar’s childhood was heavily shaped by Catholic sexual repression and guilt. Movies acted as an escape from day-to-day life, a parallel...

A poem is read and emotions are unleashed. A book is signed and pets pampered as this tour of talented talkers weaves its way through Provincetown...

A winter chill sets in making the furry residents of various dwelling places a center of affection and reflection. The images conjured up are steeped...

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...

“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...

A 10 minute short by George Kuchar which documents a visit with producer Christopher Coppola (nephew of Francis Ford Coppola and brother of Nicolas...

This melodrama, staged by me and produced with my students at the San Francisco Art Institute, follows the turbulent journey of an aspiring singer as...

Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside...

A short comedy by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

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...

The beast within and without makes an attempt to fuse with culture and the denizens of a Frankensteinian legacy.

"To counteract the talkie I had done with graduate student the day before, this undergrad project has no dialogue but just a steady stream of images...

Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted...

A camp send-up of Gothic literature and television soap opera, The Fall of the House of Yasmin glances hilariously at sex, drugs and popular music.

Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.

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

Shot in low-light style, Kuchar documents his experiences with various underground filmmakers such as James Broughton and Ken Jacobs, then moves on...

A special guest appearance by Canadian TV star Bill Ronald along with the massive presence of "Mrs. Bronx" herself, Frances Leibowitz, and her...

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...