Mike Kuchar Movies

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the...

...What once was for him "real," is now but a "dream," --for the day comes when we find ourselves stranded with memories.

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

Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted...

A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him...

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

He is mute flesh that the stroking of fingers can bring to sing.

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

BIRD IN THE SKY is a gritty, poetic tale of a young man’s spiritual struggle on the streets of New York City. Rob has been given a second...

The Vagabond...what does he seek? - ask the River, ask the Wind - but don't ask Him!

“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...

An hour-long saga of Mick Terrific, rock 'n' roll star, and the cast of 50 he encounters on his search for "Mr. Wonderful." “PEED INTO THE...

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

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

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

Nymphs and Satyrs are conjured back into activity when poetry is recited and fluffy clouds sail above the contemporary, domestic landscape.

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...

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...

Two strippers decide a walk in the park might lift their spirits, which do get a big boost when they contemplate a park monument dedicated to sailors...