George Kuchar Movies

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

An animated short about a man who finds a cat that turns into a lion. The lion becomes a famous singer who is kidnapped by gangsters. Uses animated...

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

A trip across the bay to Concord yields a harvest of non-fruit-like beings who celebrate a housewarming that simmers with macho machinations and...

A struggling screenwriter finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.

“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...

On the outer limits of an Oklahoma town both eyes scan the skies for the terror being foretold by the volatile vapors that pulse with urgent radio...

Symphony for a Sinner (1979) was a long, lavishly photographed color film generally considered the magnum opus of the class productions.

George spends a week in Los Angeles on business and at eating engagements. “I eat in Beverly Hills and do my business behind closed doors for a...

" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific...

A journey that begins in a Kansas City hotel and ends up in New Mexico. The bumpy ride is fuelled with libidinous juices as it lurches through...

A California Christmas season ushers in an array of holiday visuals designed to feed the hunger of soiled souls in search of truffle filled delights....

A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our...

The movie takes a rather negative look at things despite the fact that it was shot in reversal film. It depicts the turbulent relationships of...

Early B&W 16mm SFAI Class film by George Kuchar

A fly-on-the-wall documentary-style view of George Kuchar directing a class movie (QUEEN CONGA) at the San Francisco Art Institute

A real and favorite dream of mine, preserved on film to be relived over and over.