Mike Kuchar Movies

An angry trollop and a self-doubting college kid collide in his cramped apartment for an episode of claustrophobia and self-analysis.

An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.

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!"

Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...

Looking for "Mr. Right" in all the wrong places makes for a tragic comedy.

A club for misfits who descend into a psychedelic underworld. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute.

One's "softest parts" are "scooped out and eaten alive".

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

High above the far horizon, a beacon burns cold, bright and calm.

Relationships don't end... they linger like ghosts.

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

Dialogue taken from the Bible is put in the mouths of three souls in a modern apartment, who must deal with a "fall from grace."

A ripe lad embarks on a raw correspondence with his mirrored image, and thus: the dialogue is "fleshed out" to its full potential.

Short gay melodrama.

The dialogue for this production, featuring Cupid, is taken from the pages of a personal diary found under a chair.

Artists with brushes need light to paint a picture, but human feelings function just as well in the dark.

Amid the silence of a pastel hued room, a soul, fully-fleshed, gathers secrets whispered by the moon over his cool bedsheets.

Looney thespians run amok in a classroom.

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...

"...Deep in the garden of the Artist's heart, ghosts of bygone worlds arise on gothic wings, calling forth delicious languors."