Mike Kuchar Movies

  • 1967
    Fragments

    Fragments

    Fragments

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    Fragments
  • 1972
    Faraway Places

    Faraway Places

    Faraway Places

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    From here to there.

    Faraway Places
  • 1967
    The Unclean

    The Unclean

    The Unclean

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    Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

    The Unclean
  • 1984
    Seascape

    Seascape

    Seascape

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    A rhythmic flow of image with sound, weaving a mood suspended in time.

    Seascape
  • 1968
    Variations

    Variations

    Variations

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

    Variations
  • 1961
    A Reel of Home Movies

    A Reel of Home Movies

    A Reel of Home Movies

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

    A Reel of Home Movies
  • 2003
    Inspiration

    Inspiration

    Inspiration

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

    Inspiration
  • 1970
    Abode of the Snows

    Abode of the Snows

    Abode of the Snows

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

    Abode of the Snows
  • 2008
    A Dream of Roses

    A Dream of Roses

    A Dream of Roses

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    A House Wife's hum-drum world dissolves away into a thorny Passion Play of miraculous visions.

    A Dream of Roses
  • 2012
    Disordered

    Disordered

    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...

    Disordered
  • 2006
    Celestial Murmurs

    Celestial Murmurs

    Celestial Murmurs

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

    Celestial Murmurs
  • 1971
    Portrait of Ramona

    Portrait of Ramona

    Portrait of Ramona

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    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...

    Portrait of Ramona
  • 1984
    Fable for a new age

    Fable for a new age

    Fable for a new age

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    Four women in the throes of frustrated sexual desire. Not making fun of them but rather sending up the absurdities of passion and the ways in which...

    Fable for a new age
  • 2014
    Lost Blues

    Lost Blues

    Lost Blues

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

    Lost Blues
  • 2019
    Pathways

    Pathways

    Pathways

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    A sensitive soul with skin receptive to the World's natural elements and who has a mind open for expansive contemplation, embarks on an "inner...

    Pathways
  • 1997
    On a Shore Beneath the Sky

    On a Shore Beneath the Sky

    On a Shore Beneath the Sky

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    Be careful when you go out into the surf in a skimpy thong... the current can be treacherous and turbulent as is the human heart!

    On a Shore Beneath the Sky
  • 1995
    Cupid’s Infirmary

    Cupid’s Infirmary

    Cupid’s Infirmary

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

    Cupid’s Infirmary
  • 1997
    Candy Coated Evil

    Candy Coated Evil

    Candy Coated Evil

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    A bunch of Punk Rockers puke up all sorts of stuff.

    Candy Coated Evil
  • 2016
    Abstracted

    Abstracted

    Abstracted

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

    Abstracted
  • 1989
    Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

    Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

    Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

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    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...

    Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s