George Kuchar Movies

An ex-student of mine opens up in the privacy of her home and shows me her etchings (watercolors) as we talk of art and things that slip under the...

A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our...

Short film.

George is invited to the AFI Video Festival to see the screening of his tape, VIDEO ALBUM 5: THE THURSDAY PEOPLE, but detours into a melodrama about...

Early B&W 16mm SFAI Class film by George Kuchar

A photographer comes to my home to take pictures and gets a lensful. His mouth and his shutter snap away as I aim my finest attributes at his cold...

Experimental short

In Kuchar’s unique video-diary style, we experience the artist negotiating awkwardly with domestic settings, a party and a short trip to the...

This video diary/travelogue centers on a tropical trip to Acapulco where yours truly hits both sand and surf with maximum impact. The actual movie...

Another Holiday Diary film from George Kuchar

"This horror picture is a sequel to THE KISS OF FRANKENSTEIN (a one act play I wrote a few years ago which was performed by my graduate students at...

A window or two on the outside world is not enough, especially when you have such a lousy view of things as I had in this Oklahoma residential care...

The beast within and without makes an attempt to fuse with culture and the denizens of a Frankensteinian legacy.

Performed by my graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute, this one act play that I had written gets the best production values that $500...

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

A wide screen portrait of people, pets and places, this Frisco based video immerses the viewer in a placid flow of images that hint of darker depths...

A voyage through a California Christmas that begins in the turd-smeared streets of San Francisco and ends in a botanical wonder of ethnic endurance...

Writes Kuchar, "Come join Pepe, the magic puppet, as he transports Blackie, the cat, to a world of magic-marker marvels and Crayola creatures. View...

This melodrama, staged by me and produced with my students at the San Francisco Art Institute, follows the turbulent journey of an aspiring singer as...

A 1940s campy film noir sex romp comedy thriller. Harlem, Chinatown, Park Ave. It’s the same old story. Boy meets girl, boy gets dead, girl...