Mike Kuchar Movies

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

When the body's "primal" urges feel deprived in a "modern" age, a debate about "sex" and "love" ensues to resolve the question — perhaps even...

Two men and two women attempt to re-assemble the scattered pieces of life's puzzle.

I Was a Teenage Rumpot was made in 1960, when George and Mike, the twin brothers Kuchar, were all of eighteen years old. Though their films would...

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

“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I...

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

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

A lady alone amid the flowers of a garden becomes the target of mischievous elements therein.

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

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

A high-spirited romp through the (former) campus of San Francisco Art Institute, with two films each from George and Mike Kuchar. Features:...

A House Wife's hum-drum world dissolves away into a thorny Passion Play of miraculous visions.

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

A contemplative, static walk in the woods.

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

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

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

...It was time to chase One's shadow back into sunlight. -Mike Kuchar

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