Mike Kuchar Movies

High above the far horizon, a beacon burns cold, bright and calm.

"...will somebody lend him their sins, because his old worn out ones have become tiresome."

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

Four women in the throes of frustrated sexual desire. Not making fun of them but rather sending up the absurdities of passion and the ways in which...

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...

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

Return to the House of Pain documents my walking through the turf and sludge of the Big Apple and many worm holes... I chomp my way back west and...

His love of Heaven's virtues could not prevent a hunger for God's enticing creatures.

The windy adventures of a dog in a sea of grass beneath blue skies.

...Somewhere inside him something slumbers; the myths, the beliefs that flow, fuse and burn through him.

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.

[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives

Dialogue taken from the Bible is put in the mouths of three souls in a modern apartment, who must deal with a "fall from grace."

"...Deep in the garden of the Artist's heart, ghosts of bygone worlds arise on gothic wings, calling forth delicious languors."

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

Frisco anxiously awaits the pyrotechnic birth of a New Year while the remnants of holiday greenery still burn bright in all the right places. One of...

There is more than one way to get 'lost' in the woods.

"Great woods, you frighten me like some cathedral's gloom, and awaken pastoral pipes on pagan heights."

In this summerland a path opens for Poets, Artists, ...and the 'Dreamer'.

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