Mike Kuchar Movies

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the...

He made some 'love'....where has it all gone? --Mike Kuchar

A topsy-turvy romp.

His love of Heaven's virtues could not prevent a hunger for God's enticing creatures.

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of...

Two city dwellers in a relationship grown "tired," are near a deep forest where one hears the lure of Pan's Pipe calling.

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

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

High above the far horizon, a beacon burns cold, bright and calm.

He felt both dead and alive... having 'died' and having come back to the space of his 'living.'

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

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...

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

In a garden of roses and memorabilia from darkest Africa, a man and woman ponder the joy of cooking and the companionship of cats. Goodies for the...

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

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

Enter a shimmering forest and encounter the Pot Boiling turbulence of pre-history tribes in conflict. See sacrificial virgins, volcanoes, knife...

There is more than one way to get 'lost' in the woods.

A lady alone amid the flowers of a garden becomes the target of mischievous elements therein.