Mike Kuchar Movies

'Misery' doesn't like 'company' -- but 'company' does love a 'party', so come join in on a catastrophic celebration, and do 'hang on' tight --...

Two men and two women attempt to re-assemble the scattered pieces of life's puzzle.

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

Part three of Mike Kuchar's Heat Rash: This audio, visual laxative empties the mind of inhibitions to allow the spectator entrance into the whirlpool...

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

A moving tribute to New York icon Mike Kuchar, filmed on his last day before leaving Manhattan to relocate to San Francisco

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

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

An angry trollop and a self-doubting college kid collide in his cramped apartment for an episode of claustrophobia and self-analysis.

Blue skies, babbling brooks, and a big book in a field full of flowers is the departure point for this video.

...It was time to chase One's shadow back into sunlight. -Mike Kuchar

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...

There is a garden in the dark hunger of his psyche where forbidden fruit grows.

Commissioned to be a "promo" for a loud punk rock band, Mr. Kuchar feared that the noise the band made would spoil the mood of his visuals, so he...

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

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

A young man yearns for a mysterious lover.

'Misery' doesn't like 'company' -- but 'company' does love a 'party', so come join in on a catastrophic celebration, and do 'hang on' tight --...

The film is kind of visual, sexual, and poetic.

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