Mike Kuchar Movies

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of...

A club for misfits who descend into a psychedelic underworld. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute.

"...Deep in the garden of the Artist's heart, ghosts of bygone worlds arise on gothic wings, calling forth delicious languors."

Things "go bump in broad daylight" as archetypical characters romp about in a sunny forest...doll like things and beast men.

A kaleidoscopic concoction done with improvising actors.

...Somewhere inside him something slumbers; the myths, the beliefs that flow, fuse and burn through him.

A 'poet' and a 'painter' discover a malign muse, but their fear and anger keep them young.

Dialogue taken from the Bible is put in the mouths of three souls in a modern apartment, who must deal with a "fall from grace."

There is more than one way to get 'lost' in the woods.

(1962) Color, Sound, 9 min.

Earth's "garden" is fragrant with temptations but has far too many "thorns". He got "stung" and fell...got up...and fell, again and again!

Videomaker and spoken word performer David Finkelstein sleepwalks down into subconscious corridors.

An evocative 16mm short shot during a visit to Nepal.

The stimulus for this dissertation on the reason behind the creative impulse is taken verbatim from an author's preface to his book.

Part one of Mike Kuchar's Heat Rash series: This audio, visual laxative empties the mind of inhibitions to allow the spectator entrance into the...

He is Earth, Sky, and the Universe. He is Creation's creator.

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

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and...

Two city dwellers in a relationship grown "tired," are near a deep forest where one hears the lure of Pan's Pipe calling.