Mike Kuchar Movies

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

Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...

Nymphs and Satyrs are conjured back into activity when poetry is recited and fluffy clouds sail above the contemporary, domestic landscape.

Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named Hedda whose marriage to husband Neal (Don Bajema)...

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

“It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with...

Although too long by half, this documentary is subtitled "A Trip Through Lotti's Life" and that is essentially what it is. Although done in a style...

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

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

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

BIRD IN THE SKY is a gritty, poetic tale of a young man’s spiritual struggle on the streets of New York City. Rob has been given a second...

An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.

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

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

A young man yearns for a mysterious lover.

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

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