Mike Kuchar Movies

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

With lashings of humour and affection, this much-loved filmmaker and his students create a wonderful journey from the chaos of hell to the paradise...

"...Talking to Oneself in the mirror when down in the 'mental dumps.'"

Ripe fruit in sweaty socks; soft eyes, stained and suffering in the origin of consciousness, and a soul needing refrigeration, for it has nearly gone...

...They had their source in tangled vegetable matter, countless rapes and invasions and enjoy good wine with the girls.

Looking for "Mr. Right" in all the wrong places makes for a tragic comedy.

A "birthday boy's" poetic yearnings on paper translate into a quest for perfection."

In the depths of night lurks a beautiful fever that heats a man's blood.

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

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

Videomaker and spoken word performer David Finkelstein sleepwalks down into subconscious corridors.

“I shall walk softly on the Earth but make the footprints deep”. A young man contemplates the inevitable passing of time, and the...

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...

One's "softest parts" are "scooped out and eaten alive".

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

Two earthbound bodies soul-surf into a new age of enlightenment.

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...

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

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...

He is Earth, Sky, and the Universe. He is Creation's creator.