George Kuchar Movies

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

A poem is read and emotions are unleashed. A book is signed and pets pampered as this tour of talented talkers weaves its way through Provincetown...

A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

"In the late spring of each year the Great Plains states of the U.S. experience a season characterised by destructive tornadoes of awesome force....

A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of...

Symphony for a Sinner (1979) was a long, lavishly photographed color film generally considered the magnum opus of the class productions.

This video diary visits two sites that exhibited Kuchars visual works this past year, culminating at the VOLTA ART SHOW in N.Y.C., where he sold some...

An epic tale of love and loss. Made using voicemails the Kuchar brothers left on her home answering machine, the artist reveals George and Mike in...

George Kuchar's comically grotesque look at the age-old clash of generations.

Holed up in a Oklahoma motel room, George Kuchar witnesses the tornado-conjuring power of a talking ceramic figurine.

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...

A high-spirited romp through the (former) campus of San Francisco Art Institute, with two films each from George and Mike Kuchar. Features:...

A drama, enacted on the cornfields of Iowa, of a woman haunted by the legacy of her mother and the acts that lead to mom's downfall on the banks of a...

A chance encounter with a sober student reveals the mystery of a woodland wonder that has left a mark on his youthful psyche just as it leaves huge...

The story of Trelita, a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss and a dead boyfriend (who she may or may not have murdered). It is the second episode...

Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

The beast within and without makes an attempt to fuse with culture and the denizens of a Frankensteinian legacy.

" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific...

Craggy, ice-encrusted peaks soar skyward as blue lagoons lap incessantly to the drumbeats of big city behemoths hellbent on halibut and hashbrowns!...