Mike Kuchar Movies

From the elephant house of Bronx Zoo to the eight story tall Tabonga Terrace apartments on Sedgwich Avenue, living Mammals scream for their place in...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existance is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions...

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...

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

Once upon a time in the shelled carcass of a man, the Phoenix will rise and fall... and RISE and FALL!

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

A mother and daughter, both dressed in "shocking pink", clash over men and money.

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

Playwright and performance artist Marc Arthur paves a color-saturated path from 'awake consciousness' to sleeping 'dreamscape'.

Be careful when you go out into the surf in a skimpy thong... the current can be treacherous and turbulent as is the human heart!

From here to there.

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

...What once was for him "real," is now but a "dream," --for the day comes when we find ourselves stranded with memories.

I Was a Teenage Rumpot was made in 1960, when George and Mike, the twin brothers Kuchar, were all of eighteen years old. Though their films would...

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 series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.

An eclectic compilation of home movies and early cinematic experiments. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film...