Mike Kuchar Movies

Many a man has tried to leave the prison of his hide; it's no "paradise" living in skin!

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

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...

"...will somebody lend him their sins, because his old worn out ones have become tiresome."

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

His love of Heaven's virtues could not prevent a hunger for God's enticing creatures.

He made some 'love'....where has it all gone? --Mike Kuchar

'Misery' doesn't like 'company' -- but 'company' does love a 'party', so come join in on a catastrophic celebration, and do 'hang on' tight --...

The movie takes a rather negative look at things despite the fact that it was shot in reversal film. It depicts the turbulent relationships of...

Dialogue taken from the Bible is put in the mouths of three souls in a modern apartment, who must deal with a "fall from grace."

...Somewhere inside him something slumbers; the myths, the beliefs that flow, fuse and burn through him.

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and...

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

Amid the silence of a pastel hued room, a soul, fully-fleshed, gathers secrets whispered by the moon over his cool bedsheets.

OverRiped words from the lips of an OverExposed boy decorates this litany in pink with purple bruises.

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

...They had their source in tangled vegetable matter, countless rapes and invasions and enjoy good wine with the girls.

Dan Carbone sings Debbie and the Demons

Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...