Mike Kuchar Movies

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

This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to...

A kaleidoscopic concoction done with improvising actors.

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

Armed with an overripe script and ample supply of false eyelashes and lip gloss.

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and...

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

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

Dan Carbone sings Debbie and the Demons

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

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

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

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

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

A woman discovers her husband cheating.

Amid the silence of a pastel hued room, a soul, fully-fleshed, gathers secrets whispered by the moon over his cool bedsheets.

The stimulus for this dissertation on the reason behind the creative impulse is taken verbatim from an author's preface to his book.

A "painter" casts out the demons that haunt his canvases and who creep into his bed at night.

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

This breezy and flamboyant essay about an afternoon rendezvous is pure candy for the eyes.