Mike Kuchar Movies

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...

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

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 desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she...

Childhood dolls and adult toys populate this moody yet picturesque lullaby.

A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him...

Two city dwellers in a relationship grown "tired," are near a deep forest where one hears the lure of Pan's Pipe calling.

There is a garden in the dark hunger of his psyche where forbidden fruit grows.

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.

Nymphs and Satyrs are conjured back into activity when poetry is recited and fluffy clouds sail above the contemporary, domestic landscape.

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

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

A 'poet' and a 'painter' discover a malign muse, but their fear and anger keep them young.

A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses.

Blue skies, babbling brooks, and a big book in a field full of flowers is the departure point for this video.

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,...

Two earthbound bodies soul-surf into a new age of enlightenment.

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

A short comedy by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.