Mike Kuchar Movies
- 2014
Chasing Shadows
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...It was time to chase One's shadow back into sunlight. -Mike Kuchar
- 2008
A Brief Summer’s Tale
A Brief Summer’s Tale02008HD
There is more than one way to get 'lost' in the woods.
- 2005
In the Garden of Eros
In the Garden of Eros02005HD
The dialogue for this production, featuring Cupid, is taken from the pages of a personal diary found under a chair.
- 2004
Bird, Bath and Beyond
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In this dream-portrait, Mike Kuchar floats through his memories as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped in odd costumes, he frolics with the...
- 1998
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
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Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...
- 1963
Confessions of Babette
Confessions of Babette01963HD
An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.
- 1970
Abode of the Snows
Abode of the Snows01970HD
An evocative 16mm short shot during a visit to Nepal.
- 2007
Fruit of the Serpent
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Dialogue taken from the Bible is put in the mouths of three souls in a modern apartment, who must deal with a "fall from grace."
- 2006
Haunted
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Relationships don't end... they linger like ghosts.
- 1965
Corruption of the Damned
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Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted...
- 1989
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s01989HD
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...
- 2017
Keeper of Secrets
Keeper of Secrets02017HD
He peels away layers of secrets to you for what you are, and he likes scars because they tell stories.
- 2002
Wind in My Sails
Wind in My Sails02002HD
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...
- 2015
Museum of Damaged Art
Museum of Damaged Art02015HD
His love of Heaven's virtues could not prevent a hunger for God's enticing creatures.
- 1975
Bloodsucker
Bloodsucker01975HD
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....
- 2019
Celestial Horizons
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In the serene zone between twilight and dawn, a lullaby of thoughts floats beneath a blanket of stars.
- 2010
The Dreamer’s Tale
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Videomaker and spoken word performer David Finkelstein sleepwalks down into subconscious corridors.
- 2008
A Dream of Roses
A Dream of Roses02008HD
A House Wife's hum-drum world dissolves away into a thorny Passion Play of miraculous visions.
- 2012
Disordered
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A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and...
- 2015
A Rented Space
A Rented Space02015HD
He felt both dead and alive... having 'died' and having come back to the space of his 'living.'