Mike Kuchar Movies

"Great woods, you frighten me like some cathedral's gloom, and awaken pastoral pipes on pagan heights."

"Devils"..."Angels," when they sleep they dream not of Heaven, but of us. —Mike Kuchar

A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...

A club for misfits who descend into a psychedelic underworld. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute.

"...will somebody lend him their sins, because his old worn out ones have become tiresome."

Relationships don't end... they linger like ghosts.

Big…Rousing…Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own boys in a Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd Thorner...

A 'poet' and a 'painter' discover a malign muse, but their fear and anger keep them young.

A rose scented breeze enters a young man's, winding its cool arms around him... Together they will roam the darkness of his life.

They walk through "life", sometimes with no "compass" in hand and become "lost".

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...

From the elephant house of Bronx Zoo to the eight story tall Tabonga Terrace apartments on Sedgwich Avenue, living Mammals scream for their place in...

In this thespian workout, a troop of stage actors improvises within a kaleidoscopic zone of warped spaces.

His written letters will fade at the first light; if indeed he is dreaming the world!

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

An eclectic compilation of home movies and early cinematic experiments. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film...

A woman discovers her husband cheating.

In the serene zone between twilight and dawn, a lullaby of thoughts floats beneath a blanket of stars.

A kaleidoscopic concoction done with improvising actors.

A wide-ranging look at pictures I collect on my walls and in my head. A look at pictures I concoct with my students at the San Francisco Art...