Mike Kuchar Movies

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

Dark, domestic tensions need the cleansing rays of a bright summer afternoon.

In the depths of night lurks a beautiful fever that heats a man's blood.

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

Ripe fruit in sweaty socks; soft eyes, stained and suffering in the origin of consciousness, and a soul needing refrigeration, for it has nearly gone...

He is Earth, Sky, and the Universe. He is Creation's creator.

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...

An evocative 16mm short shot during a visit to Nepal.

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

A broken god on the stone slab in a desert, waiting for "he" that will dig for him; wipe the sand from his handsome face.

A lady alone amid the flowers of a garden becomes the target of mischievous elements therein.

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

When the body's "primal" urges feel deprived in a "modern" age, a debate about "sex" and "love" ensues to resolve the question — perhaps even...

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

A kiss can be devine or demonic. A kiss can change your life...alter it.

Masked men prowling in the bushes and not touching anything but satin, dandelions and flesh.

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

A hell of a lot more of you through a keyhole!!

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