George Kuchar Movies

  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 1999
    Secrets of the Shadow World

    Secrets of the Shadow World

    Secrets of the Shadow World

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    This three-part mini-series explores the mysterious and the mundane in a splash of digital dioramas that wipe across the screen in a cascade of...

    Secrets of the Shadow World
  • 1985
    Sparkle's Tavern

    Sparkle's Tavern

    Sparkle's Tavern

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    Siblings hide their ownership of a bordello from their mother. When she is visited by a man who shares the joys of sexual enlightenment with her, her...

    Sparkle's Tavern
  • 2009
    The Hairy Horror

    The Hairy Horror

    The Hairy Horror

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    A chance encounter with a sober student reveals the mystery of a woodland wonder that has left a mark on his youthful psyche just as it leaves huge...

    The Hairy Horror
  • 2000
    Cyclone Alley Ceramics

    Cyclone Alley Ceramics

    Cyclone Alley Ceramics

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    Holed up in a Oklahoma motel room, George Kuchar witnesses the tornado-conjuring power of a talking ceramic figurine.

    Cyclone Alley Ceramics
  • 2004
    Supercell

    Supercell

    Supercell

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    Clouds abound in this short meditation on vaporous masses that flow across the borders of our windowpanes, leaving in their wake the wreckage of...

    Supercell
  • 2010
    Room 666

    Room 666

    Room 666

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    Twenty-five years of marriage 'down the drain'!!

    Room 666
  • 2008
    Spectral Delivery

    Spectral Delivery

    Spectral Delivery

    02008HD

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

    Spectral Delivery
  • 1963
    A Town Called Tempest

    A Town Called Tempest

    A Town Called Tempest

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    Rarely has the cinema equaled such a spectacle! Seldom have movies probed so deeply into the rotten core of hypocrisy and weakness!

    A Town Called Tempest
  • 1975
    The Devil's Cleavage

    The Devil's Cleavage

    The Devil's Cleavage

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    A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.

    The Devil's Cleavage
  • 1969
    Chronicles

    Chronicles

    Chronicles

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

    Chronicles
  • 1974
    True Blue and Dreamy

    True Blue and Dreamy

    True Blue and Dreamy

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    "A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle...

    True Blue and Dreamy
  • 1965
    Sins of the Fleshapoids

    Sins of the Fleshapoids

    Sins of the Fleshapoids

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    One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids." One day, fleshapoid Xar runs wild,...

    Sins of the Fleshapoids
  • 2008
    Atrium of the Omni-Orb

    Atrium of the Omni-Orb

    Atrium of the Omni-Orb

    02008HD

    A quickie side trip to the Virginia Film Festival highlights some nice, fall foliage and a few fleeting faces as the camera probes a sculptural...

    Atrium of the Omni-Orb
  • 2024
    Kuchar-esque

    Kuchar-esque

    Kuchar-esque

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

    Kuchar-esque
  • 1962
    Night of the Bomb

    Night of the Bomb

    Night of the Bomb

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

    Night of the Bomb
  • 1976
    A Reason to Live

    A Reason to Live

    A Reason to Live

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    "This film is about depression, although it's not that depressing. I suppose it has a message of faith and hope in it ... it does for me .... But...

    A Reason to Live
  • 2008
    Orphans of the Cosmos

    Orphans of the Cosmos

    Orphans of the Cosmos

    02008HD

    Made at the San Francisco Art Institute with my students, this tuneful picture transports the viewer to the planet Mars as three attractive teens...

    Orphans of the Cosmos
  • 1978
    Symphony for a Sinner

    Symphony for a Sinner

    Symphony for a Sinner

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    Symphony for a Sinner (1979) was a long, lavishly photographed color film generally considered the magnum opus of the class productions.

    Symphony for a Sinner
  • 1993
    Andy's House of Gary

    Andy's House of Gary

    Andy's House of Gary

    01993HD

    A young painter, and his somewhat slower roommate, talk of paranormal occurrences in a room of charcoal canvasses and ephemeral renderings. Eavesdrop...

    Andy's House of Gary