Mike Kuchar Movies

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

“I shall walk softly on the Earth but make the footprints deep”. A young man contemplates the inevitable passing of time, and the...

Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...

A 16mm black and white remake of an 8mm color film done years earlier, this time with students enrolled in a 'dramatic narrative' summer workshop....

Videomaker and spoken word performer David Finkelstein sleepwalks down into subconscious corridors.

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...

'Misery' doesn't like 'company' -- but 'company' does love a 'party', so come join in on a catastrophic celebration, and do 'hang on' tight --...

An evocative 16mm short shot during a visit to Nepal.

Portrait of American filmmaker Mike Kuchar, shot in New York (United States of America) on December 2, 1988 at 7:30 PM.

Two souls, one aged, the other young, contemplate flowers, fairies and earthbound angels sent to tempt and tease.

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

Green spills over purple ridges and into deep cut valleys. Blue surges up from rounds and hollows, blending with incandescent pink plains, revealing...

High above the far horizon, a beacon burns cold, bright and calm.

Like ships in a harbor, men come and go in relationships. But, as one character says to another character who is heartbroken: "You sucked enough...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

He is Earth, Sky, and the Universe. He is Creation's creator.

He sighs for strange and hidden cities whose walls are pink stone, inlaid with opals, ebony and silver, and for altars where the body is worshiped...

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

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!

His love of Heaven's virtues could not prevent a hunger for God's enticing creatures.