Mike Kuchar Movies

Based on a short story by Charles Bukowski from the collection "Tales of Ordinary Madness."

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

Writes Kuchar: "It's New York in the summer and I set out to track down some high school friends who have burrowed deep into the 'big apple.' The...

In this dream-portrait, Mike Kuchar floats through his memories as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped in odd costumes, he frolics with the...

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

Something lies yet unwritten within a poet who lost that 'spark' of having been born brand new onto a sacred stage.

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

A desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she...

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

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

“PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and...

Ripe fruit in sweaty socks; soft eyes, stained and suffering in the origin of consciousness, and a soul needing refrigeration, for it has nearly gone...

He felt both dead and alive... having 'died' and having come back to the space of his 'living.'

Short gay melodrama.

From the elephant house of Bronx Zoo to the eight story tall Tabonga Terrace apartments on Sedgwich Avenue, living Mammals scream for their place in...

A sensitive soul with skin receptive to the World's natural elements and who has a mind open for expansive contemplation, embarks on an "inner...

In the serene zone between twilight and dawn, a lullaby of thoughts floats beneath a blanket of stars.

Offer a pagan god only simple flowers of spring and the sparkling diamonds and opals of morning dew strung on the threads of the spider... and fear...