Mike Kuchar Movies

...They'd rather climb to the stars, than give their souls to a soulless world

Many a man has tried to leave the prison of his hide; it's no "paradise" living in skin!

Part one of Mike Kuchar's Heat Rash series: This audio, visual laxative empties the mind of inhibitions to allow the spectator entrance into the...

Waiting to die and waiting to live is the same thing to him that chants: "Let me not be mad... let me not be MAD... LET ME NOT BE MAD!"

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

Masked men prowling in the bushes and not touching anything but satin, dandelions and flesh.

Ripe fruit in sweaty socks; soft eyes, stained and suffering in the origin of consciousness, and a soul needing refrigeration, for it has nearly gone...

Looking for "Mr. Right" in all the wrong places makes for a tragic comedy.

A short film by George Kuchar.

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...

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

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.

It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existance is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions...

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.

The dialogue for this production, featuring Cupid, is taken from the pages of a personal diary found under a chair.

An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.

A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!

This outdoor meditation is drenched with sunlight, carressed by breezes and blessed with a young man who discovers his special "role" in Time's...

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