George Kuchar Filmes

The viewer is whisked through a lovely cat-house, which also includes a turtle along with the whiskered pets, and then is suddenly immersed in the...

"In Xmas 1986, George Kuchar’s mother Stella has come to stay with him for the holidays. After a series of dinners with friends, Stella’s...

This piece is sort of a prologue to East by Southwest. I prepare for that trip while visiting local artists here in San Francisco. You get to see...

A friend visits from Canada and we relive the past as the future becomes more and more obscured by a cloud of burning vegetation wrapped in cigarette...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

Performed by my graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute, this one act play that I had written gets the best production values that $500...

The story of a matron and a midget in the heat of an unbridled passion. The colors run thick and heavy for paint and prurient pleasures as the...

A man cleanses himself after being unfaithful to his wife.

Set in and around an El Reno motel, the tape records George's growing friendship with a young weather expert.

Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

A deliberately tasteless drama about televangelist scandals.

A volume of illustrated horrors arrives to stimulate the chatter of those who behold its weighty extravagance. The locales shift from plate to plate...

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

Having nothing to do with racial tensions, HOUSE OF THE WHITE PEOPLE is actually a chunk of film removed from a bigger chunk called UNSTRAP ME. It is...

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...

A photographer comes to my home to take pictures and gets a lensful. His mouth and his shutter snap away as I aim my finest attributes at his cold...

Love is in the air as newlyweds chomp on cake, brides marry werewolves, and hatchets fall on adulterous heads. Amid the real-life romance is mixed...

A camp send-up of Gothic literature and television soap opera, The Fall of the House of Yasmin glances hilariously at sex, drugs and popular music.

Since the 1980s, Kuchar has been creating brilliantly edited, hilarious, and often diaristic tapes made with dime-store props and not-so-special...