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!"

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.

"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle...

It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existance is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions...

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

Based on a short story by Charles Bukowski from the collection "Tales of Ordinary Madness."

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...

“It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

In the serene zone between twilight and dawn, a lullaby of thoughts floats beneath a blanket of stars.

A wide-ranging look at pictures I collect on my walls and in my head. A look at pictures I concoct with my students at the San Francisco Art...