George Kuchar
George Kuchar ranks among the most exciting and prolific independent videomakers working today. With his homemade Super-8 and 16mm potboilers and melodramas of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, he became legendary as one of the most distinctive and outrageous American underground filmmakers. After his 1980s transition to the video medium, he remained a master of genre manipulation and subversion, creating dozens of brilliantly edited, hilarious, observant, often diaristic tapes with an 8mm camcorder, dime-store props, not-so-special effects, and using friends as actors and the "pageant that is life" as his studio. In 1992, Kuchar received the prestigious Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists from the American Film Institute. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he makes many of his tapes in collaboration with his students.

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George Kuchar: An Interview

"The best for last, though: the filmmaker George Kuchar... When the day arrives--and it will--to appoint an official United States cultural ambassador to Outer Space, Mr. Kuchar is the obvious choice. I will say no more. See his films. He is beyond enigmatic. He is "it." I salute him."
--Holland Cotter, Review of "Good Morning Midnight" exhibition at Casey Kaplan Gallery, The New York Times, July 27th 2007

All title descriptions courtesy of George Kuchar.

  

Titles by George Kuchar:

1980 Seven

500 Millibars to Ecstasy

The Acrylliac

Ancestral Antics

Andy's House of Gary

Ann Arbor

Anniversary Schmaltz

Aquatica

Arizona Byways

Art Asylum

Art Space

Artists in Residence

Atrium of the Omni-Orb

Attack of the Giant Garuda

Award

Baldies of Burgermeister Bungalow

Bargain Basement Bumpkin

Bay City Detours

Bayou of the Blue Behemoth

Beastial Comforts

Big Ones Hurt

Burnout

Burrito Bay

Butter Balls

The Cage of Nicholas

Caged Culture

Calling Dr. Petrov

Calorie Cottage

Cat House

Celebrity Casino

Celestial Cravings

Cellar Sinema

The Celluloid Cavalcade

The Celluloids

The Celtic Crevasse

Centennial

Chariots of Fear

Chat'n'Chew

Chigger Country

Chili Line Stops Here

Chow Down on Cheney Street

CinemaVille

City Sluckers

Cocktail Crooners

Come Forth, Julyowa

The Confessions of Nina Noir

Coven of the Heathenites

Creeping Crimson

Cretins of the Crate

The Crimes of Armand Tessler

The Crypt of Frankenstein

Culinary Linkage

Cult of the Cubicles

Curmudgeon of the Campus

Currents of Destiny

Curse of the Kurva

Cyclone Alley Ceramics

The Deafening Goo

Demon of the Tropics

Demonatrix of Kebrina Castle

The Desert Within

Dial A Kvetch

Dingleberry Jingles

Diorama

Domain of the Pixel Pixies

Dream Boat

Dynasty of Depravity

East By Southwest

Edible Atrocities

Evangelust

The Exiled Files of Eddie Gray

Eye on the Sky

The Fall of the House of Yasmin

Fashion Vixen

A Fatal Desire

Faulty Fathoms

Felines of Castle Frauline

Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

Film Folk

The Flakes of Winter

FlashBulb Alley

Flesh of Fury

Forbidden Fruits

Foto Spread

Frigid Escapades

Fur Ball Blues

The Fury of Frau Frankenstein

Gallery of Cameos

Garden of Goodies

Gastronomic Getaway

The Gates of Gomorrah

George Kuchar Goes to Work with Today's Youth

The Ghost of Dr. Foo

The Gifted Goon

Glacier Park Video Views

The GODmother

Going Hollywood

Going Nowhere

Graffiti Junction

Greetings from Boulder

Grotto of the Gorgons

The Guzzler of Grizzly Manor

The Hairy Horror

Havens of Hospitality

Heavenly Features

Hefner's Heifers

Hell Hole Hostage

Holiday Hang Ups

Holiday Harbor

The Holiday Xmas Video of 1991

Holidaze, 1994

Homes for the Holiday

Honey Bunnies on Ice

The Hurt that Fades

Hush, Hush, Sweet Harlot

I, of the Cyclops

ID Came from Inner Space

Impaction of the Igneous

Indian Summer

Indigo Blues

The Inmate

Interior Vacuum

Isle of Heavenly Fury

Isleton

Jamboree Journey

January Jubilee

Jungle Jezebel

Kaponga Island

The Kingdom by the Sea

Kiss of FRANKENSTEIN

Kiss of the Veggie Vixen

Kitchenetiquette

Kitty Porn

L.A. Screening Workshop

Last Hello

The Legend of Creepy Hollow

Letter from New York

Libido Lagoon

The Litter Box

Love Me True

Low Light Life

Lumps of Joy

Matinee Idylls

Mecca of the Frigid

Mellow Magic

Melody for Marla

Metropolitan Monologues

Migraton of the Blubberoids

Morsel Beach

Motivation of the Carcasoids

Movie Memo

Muffled Darkness

Munchkins of Melody Manor

Murmurs of the Hearth

Nectar of the Neophytes

Nirvana of the Nebbishites

Oasis of the Pharoahs

Omewenne

Orbits of Fear

Orphans of the Cosmos

The Pagan Angel

Paganville Flats

Passage to Wetness

The Passion Pot

Passionate Visions

Phantom of the Pine Barrens

Pictographic Piles

Pictures at an Exhibitionist's

Pilgrimage

Planet of the Vamps

Point 'n Shoot

Portrait of Genie

Portraiture in Black

Precious Products

Princess

Queen Conga

Rainy Season

Rancho Roulette

The Redhead from Riverside Terrace

Return to the House of Pain

Rocky Interlude

Route 666

Saga of Magda

Say Yes to No

Scarlet Droppings

SeaSide Show

Season of Sorrow

Secrets of the Shadow World

Sherman Acres

Showtoons

Shutter Buggies

Sins of Bunny Luv

Slippage in the Garden of Udon

The Smutty Professor

Snake Goddess

Snap 'n Snatch

Society Slut

Solstice

Song of the Whoopee Wind

Spawn of the Pagan

Spectral Delivery

The Stench of Satan

Storm Surge

Story of Ruthy

Studio 8

Suji's House of Shame

Summer Sketch Marks

Sunbelt Serenade, Part 1: Oklahoma

Sunbelt Serenade, Part 2: Los Angeles

Sunbelt Serenade, Part 3: Arizona

Supercell

Swoon Lake

Tales of the Twilight Typist

Tempest in a Tea Room

Temple of Torment

Terror By Twilight

Thespian Tendencies

Tinseltown

Tower of Terror

The Tower of the Astro-Cyclops

The Towering Icon

The Treasures of Creepy Hollow

Trilogy of the Titans

Trinity

Uncle Evil

The Unclean

The Unmentionables

Urban Doodles

Urchins of Ungawa

Vacant Viewables

Vault of Vapors

Vermin of the Vortex

Video Album 1

Video Album 2

Video Album 3

Video Album 5: The Thursday People

Video Wallpaper Series

Vile Cargo

Visitation Rites

Vista Visions

The Warming of the Hell House

Water Sports

The Wayward Syllabus

We, The Normal

Weather Diary 1

Weather Diary 2

Weather Diary 3

Weather Diary 4

Weather Diary 5

Weather Diary 6

Weather Watch

The Web of Dr. Satan

Web of Vice

Wet Dreams

Winter Hostilities

Woman of the 90s

X MASS

Xmas 1987 New Years

Yuletide Surfers

Zombies of Zanzibar


Work by George Kuchar also appears on:

Anthology: The World of George Kuchar