Mike Kuchar Movies

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

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...

A rhythmic flow of image with sound, weaving a mood suspended in time.

Amid the silence of a pastel hued room, a soul, fully-fleshed, gathers secrets whispered by the moon over his cool bedsheets.

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

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.

Enter a shimmering forest and encounter the Pot Boiling turbulence of pre-history tribes in conflict. See sacrificial virgins, volcanoes, knife...

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

...They'd rather climb to the stars, than give their souls to a soulless world

Dan Carbone sings Debbie and the Demons

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

Obsessive desire can leave an indelible stain on its victim.

A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.

Something lies yet unwritten within a poet who lost that 'spark' of having been born brand new onto a sacred stage.

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

"Devils"..."Angels," when they sleep they dream not of Heaven, but of us. —Mike Kuchar

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...

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

A naughty romp that is bare, brazen, and "black and blue" too, featuring a playpen of playthings that go on an erotic rampage."

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