Mike Kuchar Movies

Waiting to die and waiting to live is the same thing to him that chants: "Let me not be mad... let me not be MAD... LET ME NOT BE MAD!"

"...Talking to Oneself in the mirror when down in the 'mental dumps.'"

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

A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

Be careful when you go out into the surf in a skimpy thong... the current can be treacherous and turbulent as is the human heart!

Enter a shimmering forest and encounter the Pot Boiling turbulence of pre-history tribes in conflict. See sacrificial virgins, volcanoes, knife...

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

A rhythmic flow of image with sound, weaving a mood suspended in time.

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the...

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

“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I...

This outdoor meditation is drenched with sunlight, carressed by breezes and blessed with a young man who discovers his special "role" in Time's...

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

...It was time to chase One's shadow back into sunlight. -Mike Kuchar

Playwright and performance artist Marc Arthur paves a color-saturated path from 'awake consciousness' to sleeping 'dreamscape'.

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

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

The Vagabond...what does he seek? - ask the River, ask the Wind - but don't ask Him!

A vain, self centered mother competes with her daughter in the world of carnivorous men and sleazy movies.