Mike Kuchar Movies

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

A 16mm black and white remake of an 8mm color film done years earlier, this time with students enrolled in a 'dramatic narrative' summer workshop....

A woman discovers her husband cheating.

They walk through "life", sometimes with no "compass" in hand and become "lost".

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

Videomaker and spoken word performer David Finkelstein sleepwalks down into subconscious corridors.

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and...

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

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

They wait for voices to reach them, touch them!

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

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

Two earthbound bodies soul-surf into a new age of enlightenment.

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

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

Paint drips and body fluids ooze in this "tell all" and "hide nothing" documentary about two San Francisco males.

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

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

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

In a garden of roses and memorabilia from darkest Africa, a man and woman ponder the joy of cooking and the companionship of cats. Goodies for the...