Mike Kuchar Movies

"A Tub Named Desire," the first movie with Donna Kerness, does not exist anymore, except for one 8mm print that was in George Kuchar's possession....

Portrait of American filmmaker Mike Kuchar, shot in New York (United States of America) on December 2, 1988 at 7:30 PM.

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

Based on a short story by Charles Bukowski from the collection "Tales of Ordinary Madness."

A vain, self centered mother competes with her daughter in the world of carnivorous men and sleazy movies.

Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted...

"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...

They wait for voices to reach them, touch them!

Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had a wonderful time working together....

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

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

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

A "birthday boy's" poetic yearnings on paper translate into a quest for perfection."

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

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

A man is at odds with his very existence when he meets a salacious streetwalker, has his fortune read by a mysterious man and is chased by a killer.

A young man yearns for a mysterious lover.

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

A club for misfits who descend into a psychedelic underworld. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute.

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.