Mike Kuchar Movies

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

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...

Writes Kuchar: "It's New York in the summer and I set out to track down some high school friends who have burrowed deep into the 'big apple.' The...

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

Although too long by half, this documentary is subtitled "A Trip Through Lotti's Life" and that is essentially what it is. Although done in a style...

Two souls, one aged, the other young, contemplate flowers, fairies and earthbound angels sent to tempt and tease.

Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...

In this thespian workout, a troop of stage actors improvises within a kaleidoscopic zone of warped spaces.

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

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the...

Short gay melodrama.

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

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

Earth's "garden" is fragrant with temptations but has far too many "thorns". He got "stung" and fell...got up...and fell, again and again!

He felt both dead and alive... having 'died' and having come back to the space of his 'living.'

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 rose scented breeze enters a young man's, winding its cool arms around him... Together they will roam the darkness of his life.

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

The movie takes a rather negative look at things despite the fact that it was shot in reversal film. It depicts the turbulent relationships of...

Masked men prowling in the bushes and not touching anything but satin, dandelions and flesh.