George Kuchar Movies

  • 1968
    Underground New York

    Underground New York

    Underground New York

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    A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

    Underground New York
  • 1957
    The Naked and the Nude

    The Naked and the Nude

    The Naked and the Nude

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    Big…Rousing…Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own boys in a Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd Thorner...

    The Naked and the Nude
  • 1974
    True Blue and Dreamy

    True Blue and Dreamy

    True Blue and Dreamy

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    A real and favorite dream of mine, preserved on film to be relived over and over.

    True Blue and Dreamy
  • 1968
    House of the White People

    House of the White People

    House of the White People

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    Having nothing to do with racial tensions, HOUSE OF THE WHITE PEOPLE is actually a chunk of film removed from a bigger chunk called UNSTRAP ME. It is...

    House of the White People
  • 1967
    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

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    "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

    Bill's Hat
  • 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
  • 1964
    Born of the Wind

    Born of the Wind

    Born of the Wind

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    A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.

    Born of the Wind
  • 2008
    Coven of the Heathenites

    Coven of the Heathenites

    Coven of the Heathenites

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    A summer sojourn is fleshed out for maximum solar exposure in this video travelogue of sun, sea and epidermal exhibitionism. The states of mind and...

    Coven of the Heathenites
  • 1976
    George

    George

    George

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    George (1976, revised in 1988) is a portrait of George Kuchar composed on a J-K optical printer with 4 scenes always running simultaneously through...

    George
  • 1975
    Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony

    Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony

    Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony

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    A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our...

    Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony
  • 1978
    The Mongreloid

    The Mongreloid

    The Mongreloid

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    A man, his dog, and the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on the landscape. Not even time can wash away the residue of...

    The Mongreloid
  • 1956
    A Tub Named Desire

    A Tub Named Desire

    A Tub Named Desire

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    "A Tub Named Desire," the first movie with Donna Kerness, does not exist anymore, except for one 8mm print that was in George Kuchar's possession....

    A Tub Named Desire
  • 1959
    The Thief and the Stripper

    The Thief and the Stripper

    The Thief and the Stripper

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    (1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

    The Thief and the Stripper
  • 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
  • 1972
    Wieners and Buns Musical

    Wieners and Buns Musical

    Wieners and Buns Musical

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    A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

    Wieners and Buns Musical
  • 1990
    A Passage to Wetness

    A Passage to Wetness

    A Passage to Wetness

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    An island. A mountain. A City of Angels who scoop up the pellets dropped by other winged creatures.

    A Passage to Wetness
  • 1965
    Corruption of the Damned

    Corruption of the Damned

    Corruption of the Damned

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    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...

    Corruption of the Damned
  • 1987
    Cult of the Cubicles

    Cult of the Cubicles

    Cult of the Cubicles

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    Writes Kuchar: "It's New York in the summer and I set out to track down some high school friends who have burrowed deep into the 'big apple.' The...

    Cult of the Cubicles
  • 1988
    Return to the House of Pain

    Return to the House of Pain

    Return to the House of Pain

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    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...

    Return to the House of Pain
  • 1983
    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

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    A documentary portrait of filmmaker George Kuchar conducting a tour of his apartment where he displays memorabilia and his toys which were used for...

    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground