365 Day Project
2007
star 10.0
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Eve...
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Directing
Mike Kuchar
Mike Kuchar, cinematographer, painter and writer and brother of George Kuchar, was born in New York City. He began making 8mm movies in the 1950's, switching over to 16mm film production in 1960, and continues now, producing short motion pictures in the video and digital formats. Mike and George Kuchar were the co-recipients of the "Vanguard Director Award" at the 11th CineVegas Film Festival, 2009, and the 2009 "Frameline Award" at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
"Film purists," says Mike, "tend to snub the digital medium — but as far as I'm concerned, if it allows the image to move and make noise, I'll gladly use it... and the format fits perfectly into my budgets too!"
Mike Kuchar is a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow for his work in film and video.
Filmography
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Cinématon
1978
star 4.9
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever...
Divine Trash
2000
star 7.2
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
star 8.4
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jona...
It Came from Kuchar
2009
star 7.1
It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, t...
The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966
star 5.0
A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guil...
Underground New York
1968
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time an...
Cult of the Cubicles
1987
star 9.0
Writes Kuchar: "It's New York in the summer and I set out to track down some high school friends who have burro...
Peed Into the Wind
1972
star 3.0
An hour-long saga of Mick Terrific, rock 'n' roll star, and the cast of 50 he encounters on his search for "Mr....
River Windows
1966
"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idylli...
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
1983
star 7.8
A documentary portrait of filmmaker George Kuchar conducting a tour of his apartment where he displays memorabi...
Oh Hi Anne
2017
An epic tale of love and loss. Made using voicemails the Kuchar brothers left on her home answering machine, th...
Portrait of Ramona
1971
star 5.0
This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empt...
Galaxie
1966
star 10.0
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York c...
BIRD IN THE SKY
2005
star 9.3
BIRD IN THE SKY is a gritty, poetic tale of a young man’s spiritual struggle on the streets of New York City. R...
Corruption of the Damned
1965
star 6.7
Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the...
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974
star 3.3
"Curt McDowell's NUDES (A Sketchbook) is a paean to the filmmaker's closest friends: a series of portraits (beg...
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bron...
The Mammal Palace
1968
star 8.0
The movie takes a rather negative look at things despite the fact that it was shot in reversal film. It depicts...
Lust for Ecstasy
1964
star 7.0
“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D...
True Blue and Dreamy
1974
star 4.3
A real and favorite dream of mine, preserved on film to be relived over and over.
Beaver Fever
1974
star 4.0
Starring George Kuchar as "Hunk", Mrs. Ruby B. Davis as "Aunt Ruth", and introducing Melinda McDowell as the mu...
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987
The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came...
Seadrift
1976
Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead...
The Shadow Glass
1976
The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable...
Confessions of Babette
1963
star 9.0
An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.
Magicman
1975
A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images
Chronicles
1969
Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.
The Unmentionables
2009
Frisco anxiously awaits the pyrotechnic birth of a New Year while the remnants of holiday greenery still burn b...
Award
1992
star 9.0
A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
star 10.0
Portrait of siblings George and Mike Kuchar, who have made a name for themselves in the US underground scene wi...
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
1998
star 8.0
Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Ni...
Return to the House of Pain
1988
star 10.0
Return to the House of Pain documents my walking through the turf and sludge of the Big Apple and many worm hol...
Bird, Bath and Beyond
2004
star 6.5
In this dream-portrait, Mike Kuchar floats through his memories as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped i...
My Morning with Magic Mike
2023
star 5.0
A visit with the inimitable Mike Kuchar.
Color Me Shameless
1967
star 10.0
Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had...