Mike Kuchar Movies

He is mute flesh that the stroking of fingers can bring to sing.

A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses.

Relationships don't end... they linger like ghosts.

“It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle...

A broken god on the stone slab in a desert, waiting for "he" that will dig for him; wipe the sand from his handsome face.

A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!

A young man yearns for a mysterious lover.

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

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

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...

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

A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...

A short comedy by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

The stimulus for this dissertation on the reason behind the creative impulse is taken verbatim from an author's preface to his book.

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

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 hell of a lot more of you through a keyhole!!

"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...

"...Roy has set in and spread across the fabric of their lives."

Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a...