George Kuchar Movies

  • 2009
    Celebrity Casino

    Celebrity Casino

    Celebrity Casino

    02009HD

    A trip to Las Vegas and a hike down a red carpet of star trodden footprints highlights this glimpse of glamorous glitz as flash bulbs pop to ignite...

    Celebrity Casino
  • 1976
    Back to Nature

    Back to Nature

    Back to Nature

    7.51976HD

    A man cleanses himself after being unfaithful to his wife.

    Back to Nature
  • 2010
    Tummy Ache Times

    Tummy Ache Times

    Tummy Ache Times

    02010HD

    It's the season of joy once again and this video depicts the tasty and the troublesome in big, heaping spoonfuls. Witness a social whirlpool of...

    Tummy Ache Times
  • 2009
    Libido Lagoon

    Libido Lagoon

    Libido Lagoon

    02009HD

    This turgid potboiler was made with my class at the San Francisco Art Institute. It steam-rolls a series of overheated episodes to a colorful climax...

    Libido Lagoon
  • 1993
    Bayou of the Blue Behemoth

    Bayou of the Blue Behemoth

    Bayou of the Blue Behemoth

    71993HD

    The waters run deep as massive jaws chomp and bubbles burst in a world gone mad with technological delusion and prehistoric puppetry.

    Bayou of the Blue Behemoth
  • 2004
    A Fatal Desire

    A Fatal Desire

    A Fatal Desire

    102004HD

    This melodrama, staged by me and produced with my students at the San Francisco Art Institute, follows the turbulent journey of an aspiring singer as...

    A Fatal Desire
  • 2011
    The Butchered Beefcake

    The Butchered Beefcake

    The Butchered Beefcake

    02011HD

    This video diary visits two sites that exhibited Kuchars visual works this past year, culminating at the VOLTA ART SHOW in N.Y.C., where he sold some...

    The Butchered Beefcake
  • 1988
    Weather Diary 4

    Weather Diary 4

    Weather Diary 4

    01988HD

    Attempting to apologize for the lack of good weather in Weather Diary 3, George arrives in Milwaukee only to find the drought back in full swing....

    Weather Diary 4
  • 1993
    Ann Arbor

    Ann Arbor

    Ann Arbor

    101993HD

    It stands as a mecca to 16mm film, and weathers the withering breath of a shifting climate. Bundled-up in opulence and optimism, the film festival...

    Ann Arbor
  • 1981
    Yolanda

    Yolanda

    Yolanda

    91981HD

    A film about a housewife obsessed with the idea of a large hairy creature, 12 feet tall, with big feet. Chronicles her eventual breakdown in no...

    Yolanda
  • 1967
    The Unclean

    The Unclean

    The Unclean

    01967HD

    Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

    The Unclean
  • 1992
    Sherman Acres

    Sherman Acres

    Sherman Acres

    01992HD

    A drama in six episodes involving psychological breakdowns, marital showdowns, and messy obsessions. The characters include a wayward priest, a...

    Sherman Acres
  • 1988
    Weather Diary 3

    Weather Diary 3

    Weather Diary 3

    51988HD

    Set in and around an El Reno motel, the tape records George's growing friendship with a young weather expert.

    Weather Diary 3
  • 1972
    Confessions

    Confessions

    Confessions

    5.81972HD

    "Just as outrageous is Curt McDowell's CONFESSIONS. McDowell, a graduate student at San Francisco Art Institute, opens his film with a confession to...

    Confessions
  • 1970
    Tropical Vulture

    Tropical Vulture

    Tropical Vulture

    01970HD

    Tropical Vulture is a cross-generational project which highlights the artistic influences between George Kuchar, a Bay Area legend of independent...

    Tropical Vulture
  • 2008
    X MASS

    X MASS

    X MASS

    02008HD

    A California winter turns the left coast into a brew of foaming festivities while landlubbers leap for joy in the spray of salty slurpings.

    X MASS
  • 1989
    Point 'n Shoot

    Point 'n Shoot

    Point 'n Shoot

    101989HD

    A lavish home is visited, shutters click, bottoms are exposed, water splashes and a welcome wetness stains an area unquenched for so long. A jacuzzi...

    Point 'n Shoot
  • 1990
    Snap 'n Snatch

    Snap 'n Snatch

    Snap 'n Snatch

    01990HD

    A sort-of music video that focuses on and under young women and men engaged in focusing video and movie cameras on other young men and women.

    Snap 'n Snatch
  • 1978
    Prescrition in Blue

    Prescrition in Blue

    Prescrition in Blue

    81978HD

    Kuchar short.

    Prescrition in Blue
  • 1987
    1980 Seven

    1980 Seven

    1980 Seven

    91987HD

    This piece is sort of a prologue to East by Southwest. I prepare for that trip while visiting local artists here in San Francisco. You get to see...

    1980 Seven