George Kuchar Movies

  • 1985
    Video Album 1

    Video Album 1

    Video Album 1

    01985HD

    A very chatty array of people along with still photos and a loose-tongued cab driver, make this a leisurely stroll through my social life of several...

    Video Album 1
  • 2004
    A Fatal Desire

    A Fatal Desire

    A Fatal Desire

    102004HD

    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...

    A Fatal Desire
  • 1999
    Brainbox

    Brainbox

    Brainbox

    01999HD

    Two scientists are after the achievement of ultimate brain power.

    Brainbox
  • 1993
    Ann Arbor

    Ann Arbor

    Ann Arbor

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    It stands as a mecca to 16mm film, and weathers the withering breath of a shifting climate. Bundled-up in opulence and optimism, the film festival...

    Ann Arbor
  • 2010
    Webtide

    Webtide

    Webtide

    02010HD

    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...

    Webtide
  • 1966
    Leisure

    Leisure

    Leisure

    91966HD

    A dramatized social commentary with the horrifying impact of a three-hundred ton chunk of margarine.

    Leisure
  • 1994
    Holidaze, 1994

    Holidaze, 1994

    Holidaze, 1994

    7.51994HD

    George spends quality time with his friends Karen and Carla in this unconventional, glitchy, collaged holiday video. HOLIDAZE filters a gift...

    Holidaze, 1994
  • 1988
    Evangelust

    Evangelust

    Evangelust

    81988HD

    A deliberately tasteless drama about televangelist scandals.

    Evangelust
  • 2008
    Spectral Delivery

    Spectral Delivery

    Spectral Delivery

    02008HD

    A volume of illustrated horrors arrives to stimulate the chatter of those who behold its weighty extravagance. The locales shift from plate to plate...

    Spectral Delivery
  • 1988
    Weather Diary 3

    Weather Diary 3

    Weather Diary 3

    51988HD

    Set in and around an El Reno motel, the tape records George's growing friendship with a young weather expert.

    Weather Diary 3
  • 1991
    Scarlet Droppings

    Scarlet Droppings

    Scarlet Droppings

    61991HD

    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...

    Scarlet Droppings
  • 1987
    1980 Seven

    1980 Seven

    1980 Seven

    91987HD

    This piece is sort of a prologue to East by Southwest. I prepare for that trip while visiting local artists here in San Francisco. You get to see...

    1980 Seven
  • 1992
    Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage

    01992HD

    A voyage through a California Christmas that begins in the turd-smeared streets of San Francisco and ends in a botanical wonder of ethnic endurance...

    Pilgrimage
  • 1970
    Calling Dr. Petrov

    Calling Dr. Petrov

    Calling Dr. Petrov

    01970HD

    Focuses on the troubles at a large hospital beset with calamity and vice. We meet the doctors and nurses and get a glimpse of their personal traumas.

    Calling Dr. Petrov
  • 2008
    Pictographic Piles

    Pictographic Piles

    Pictographic Piles

    02008HD

    As I rummage through a stack of photos the memories of this and that plus who’s what and where rush in helter skelter. There’s a lot to...

    Pictographic Piles
  • 2004
    Supercell

    Supercell

    Supercell

    02004HD

    Clouds abound in this short meditation on vaporous masses that flow across the borders of our windowpanes, leaving in their wake the wreckage of...

    Supercell
  • 1970
    Saga of Magda

    Saga of Magda

    Saga of Magda

    91970HD

    A drama, enacted on the cornfields of Iowa, of a woman haunted by the legacy of her mother and the acts that lead to mom's downfall on the banks of a...

    Saga of Magda
  • 2004
    Temple of Torment

    Temple of Torment

    Temple of Torment

    02004HD

    There is so much to absorb: the wetness from the sky. The hooded figure in the box. A big plate of pasta, and that chair on wheels. Messages of moral...

    Temple of Torment
  • 2009
    Solstice

    Solstice

    Solstice

    02009HD

    "Solstice is a video illustrating the feelings inspired by this holiday song written by a young man I met in Atlanta, Georgia, Andy Ditzler. My...

    Solstice
  • 1997
    Morsel Beach

    Morsel Beach

    Morsel Beach

    01997HD

    Friends gather for a celebration in the sun as the surf rolls in.

    Morsel Beach