Mike Kuchar Movies

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

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

Secret number... secret shape... knower of the secret name... God of the realm of night - I summon you, 'Son of Sin'... arise!

He sighs for strange and hidden cities whose walls are pink stone, inlaid with opals, ebony and silver, and for altars where the body is worshiped...

Short gay melodrama.

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

...They'd rather climb to the stars, than give their souls to a soulless world

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

A topsy-turvy romp.

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...

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of...

A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!

His written letters will fade at the first light; if indeed he is dreaming the world!

A mother and daughter, both dressed in "shocking pink", clash over men and money.

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

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...

...What once was for him "real," is now but a "dream," --for the day comes when we find ourselves stranded with memories.

In this dream-portrait, Mike Kuchar floats through his memories as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped in odd costumes, he frolics with the...

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...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.