Mike Kuchar Movies

Once upon a time in the shelled carcass of a man, the Phoenix will rise and fall... and RISE and FALL!

"No man can stay in bed forever...He must rise up; up the steep steps of perfection."

A naughty romp that is bare, brazen, and "black and blue" too, featuring a playpen of playthings that go on an erotic rampage."

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 ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images

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

One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids." One day, fleshapoid Xar runs wild,...

Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named Hedda whose marriage to husband Neal (Don Bajema)...

A short film by George Kuchar.

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...

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

“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...

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.

A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!

“I shall walk softly on the Earth but make the footprints deep”. A young man contemplates the inevitable passing of time, and the...

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

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...

Commissioned to be a "promo" for a loud punk rock band, Mr. Kuchar feared that the noise the band made would spoil the mood of his visuals, so he...

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with...

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