Mike Kuchar Movies

It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existance is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions...

In this summerland a path opens for Poets, Artists, ...and the 'Dreamer'.

Artists with brushes need light to paint a picture, but human feelings function just as well in the dark.

A short comedy by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

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

Short gay melodrama.

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.

"...will somebody lend him their sins, because his old worn out ones have become tiresome."

Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...

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

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

In the depths of night lurks a beautiful fever that heats a man's blood.

An angry trollop and a self-doubting college kid collide in his cramped apartment for an episode of claustrophobia and self-analysis.

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...

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

A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!

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

"...Talking to Oneself in the mirror when down in the 'mental dumps.'"

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)...