George Kuchar Movies

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...

This final weather diary travels through some rough inner and outer domains. Social interactions blend more smoothly than the clash of air masses...

A young painter, and his somewhat slower roommate, talk of paranormal occurrences in a room of charcoal canvasses and ephemeral renderings. Eavesdrop...

A trip to Las Vegas and a hike down a red carpet of star trodden footprints highlights this glimpse of glamorous glitz as flash bulbs pop to ignite...

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...

This turbulent and colorful drama about the proud and the profane was made with an international group of students at the school where I've been...

Another Holiday Diary film from George Kuchar

A deliberately tasteless drama about televangelist scandals.

George Kuchar travels to Oklahoma in search of tornadoes, spends most of his time watching TV and eating food.

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...

The story of a matron and a midget in the heat of an unbridled passion. The colors run thick and heavy for paint and prurient pleasures as the...

The spirit of poets permeates the space/time occupied by an assortment of dinner engagements that occasionally erupt into physical or verbal assaults...

A series of abrupt vignettes and transitional montages paint a torrid portrait of a tropical isle in the grip of terror. Linda Martinez stars in this...

The colors of fall are muted by the fog of a lingering summer and the memory of that which is dark and naked among the dappled crimson.

In Kuchar’s unique video-diary style, we experience the artist negotiating awkwardly with domestic settings, a party and a short trip to the...

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...

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

Against the background of a grisly mystery, four people face a growing sense of panic and uncleanliness. Part documentary, part "cartoon," part B...

"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...

A man and a hotel room. One of the best of the series. Writes Kuchar: "Set in central Oklahoma during May, I spend 3 weeks in a motel and get talked...