George Kuchar Movies

  • 2009
    Maggots and Men

    Maggots and Men

    Maggots and Men

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    A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of...

    Maggots and Men
  • 1985
    Ascension of the Demonoids

    Ascension of the Demonoids

    Ascension of the Demonoids

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    George Kuchar received his only funding grant for this film ($20,000 from the NEA), and so, freed from the usual financial restraints, he was...

    Ascension of the Demonoids
  • 1987
    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

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

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People
  • 1972
    Wieners and Buns Musical

    Wieners and Buns Musical

    Wieners and Buns Musical

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

    Wieners and Buns Musical
  • 1957
    The Naked and the Nude

    The Naked and the Nude

    The Naked and the Nude

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

    The Naked and the Nude
  • 1988
    Mecca of the Frigid

    Mecca of the Frigid

    Mecca of the Frigid

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    George visits underground filmmaker Robert Nelson in Milwaukee, and they brave the cold on Lake Michigan.

    Mecca of the Frigid
  • 1968
    The Mammal Palace

    The Mammal Palace

    The Mammal Palace

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    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...

    The Mammal Palace
  • 1960
    I Was a Teenage Rumpot

    I Was a Teenage Rumpot

    I Was a Teenage Rumpot

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    I Was a Teenage Rumpot was made in 1960, when George and Mike, the twin brothers Kuchar, were all of eighteen years old. Though their films would...

    I Was a Teenage Rumpot
  • 1989
    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

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    A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
  • 1989
    Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

    Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

    Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

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    A wide-ranging look at pictures I collect on my walls and in my head. A look at pictures I concoct with my students at the San Francisco Art...

    Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
  • 1983
    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

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    A documentary portrait of filmmaker George Kuchar conducting a tour of his apartment where he displays memorabilia and his toys which were used for...

    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
  • 1966
    The Secret of Wendel Samson

    The Secret of Wendel Samson

    The Secret of Wendel Samson

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    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...

    The Secret of Wendel Samson
  • 1978
    Symphony for a Sinner

    Symphony for a Sinner

    Symphony for a Sinner

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

    Symphony for a Sinner
  • 1992
    George Kuchar Goes to Work with Today's Youth

    George Kuchar Goes to Work with Today's Youth

    George Kuchar Goes to Work with Today's Youth

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    As a video journal shot by George Kuchar’s students in his Underground Drama class at the San Francisco Art Institute, George Kuchar Goes to...

    George Kuchar Goes to Work with Today's Youth
  • 2006
    Meet The Kuchar Brothers

    Meet The Kuchar Brothers

    Meet The Kuchar Brothers

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    Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bronx. Get to know the Kuchars, casually...

    Meet The Kuchar Brothers
  • 2013
    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

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    A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual...

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
  • 2006
    I, of the Cyclops

    I, of the Cyclops

    I, of the Cyclops

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    A poem is read and emotions are unleashed. A book is signed and pets pampered as this tour of talented talkers weaves its way through Provincetown...

    I, of the Cyclops
  • 1974
    Nudes: A Sketchbook

    Nudes: A Sketchbook

    Nudes: A Sketchbook

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    "Curt McDowell's NUDES (A Sketchbook) is a paean to the filmmaker's closest friends: a series of portraits (beginning with one of George Kuchar)...

    Nudes: A Sketchbook
  • 2006
    Hitchcocked!

    Hitchcocked!

    Hitchcocked!

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    A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.

    Hitchcocked!
  • 1985
    Sparkle's Tavern

    Sparkle's Tavern

    Sparkle's Tavern

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    Siblings hide their ownership of a bordello from their mother. When she is visited by a man who shares the joys of sexual enlightenment with her, her...

    Sparkle's Tavern