Kuchar Archive

Visitation Rites
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Alone in an Oklahoma motel room with a mute companion, the talkative one speaks the language of memory as pussycats feast from a canned cornucopia. Murals plaster the vacancy intrinsic to American angst as horse tails whip from annoyance the...

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: diary, environment, memory

Vista Visions
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A tribute to people everywhere who spread their glorious visions on canvases both large and small, beaded or lenticular, glossy or matt finished. A joyous celebration of lofty peaks and deep dished delights all basking in the limelight of...

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: visual art

2007 | 10:00
Vortex
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Love comes in all colors... "black and blue" included.

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: love

The Warming of the Hell House
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A trip across the bay to Concord yields a harvest of non-fruit-like beings who celebrate a housewarming that simmers with macho machinations and family discord. The mood is upbeat while the company is lowbrow, and coming out of the bushes rather...

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: diary, expedition/travel, humor

Water Sports
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A trip to the Marin headlands at the Golden Gate of San Francisco Bay headlines this video diary. The viewer gets to eves and eye drop on various verbal and real time activities that are of a wet nature now and then. There’re boats and bodies and...

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: environment, expedition/travel

George Kuchar, The Wayward Syllabus
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I wander around empty halls of academic buildings carrying bags of Halloween atrocities for our latest class project: a horror movie that lives up to that classification on multiple levels. The viewer is given a front row seat to the directorial...

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: performance

We, The Normal
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On a back-to-nature trip to Boulder, Colorado, George goes to the mountains, but goes on the rocks emotionally.

This title is also available on The World of George Kuchar...

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: autobiography, diary, expedition/travel, mental landscape

Weather Diary 1
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“The tape ultimately addresses all the big questions—death, origin and family, religion—as well as the small discomforts of the body, only to reverse their order of importance.”

—Margaret Morse, Framework (Los Angeles Contemporary...

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: autobiography, diary, environment, expedition/travel, humor

Weather Diary 2
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In a motel in El Reno, Oklahoma, George observes the weather and copes with leaking air conditioning, food shopping, loneliness, television, and eating, among other things.

 

Collection: Kuchar Archive, Single Titles

Tags: autobiography, diary, environment, humor