Mike Kuchar Movies

A club for misfits who descend into a psychedelic underworld. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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

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

Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a...

Green spills over purple ridges and into deep cut valleys. Blue surges up from rounds and hollows, blending with incandescent pink plains, revealing...

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.

Something lies yet unwritten within a poet who lost that 'spark' of having been born brand new onto a sacred stage.

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

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

A "birthday boy's" poetic yearnings on paper translate into a quest for perfection."

“I shall walk softly on the Earth but make the footprints deep”. A young man contemplates the inevitable passing of time, and the...

An eclectic compilation of home movies and early cinematic experiments. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film...

A naughty romp that is bare, brazen, and "black and blue" too, featuring a playpen of playthings that go on an erotic rampage."

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

Looking for "Mr. Right" in all the wrong places makes for a tragic comedy.

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

Commissioned to be a "promo" for a loud punk rock band, Mr. Kuchar feared that the noise the band made would spoil the mood of his visuals, so he...

Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted...

"No man can stay in bed forever...He must rise up; up the steep steps of perfection."