George Kuchar Movie Trailers
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Gastronomic Getaway Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside pastry.
Scarlet Droppings Trailer (1991)
01 August 1991
Taped in Normal, Illinois, during the height of autumn, a snapshot of a young girl triggers a meditation on dying innocence and sizzling sausages as a low, winter sun ignites the smoke of greasy longings and meat-eating hunger.
Tummy Ache Times Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
It's the season of joy once again and this video depicts the tasty and the troublesome in big, heaping spoonfuls.
We, the Normal Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
In Kuchar’s unique video-diary style, we experience the artist negotiating awkwardly with domestic settings, a party and a short trip to the mountains in Boulder, Colorado.
Electrocute Your Stars Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
In this dream portrait, George Kuchar travels through snow confetti, strobe flashes and artificial wind as he describes his weather diaries.
Art Space Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
A brief trip to the Miami '09 art festival was the moving (or swimming) force to instigate this travelogue.
Society Slut Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
The story of a matron and a midget in the heat of an unbridled passion. The colors run thick and heavy for paint and prurient pleasures as the electronic canvas unscrolls to reveal a bevy of beasties and beauties of nature and the unnatural.
Snap 'n Snatch Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
A sort-of music video that focuses on and under young women and men engaged in focusing video and movie cameras on other young men and women.
FlashBulb Alley Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
A trip to the Los Angeles film festival leads to a glamorous gauntlet of flashing smiles and flashing bulbs that add the extra “humph” to a reunion of old friends.
Vault of Vapors Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
One of Kuchars weather diary series out in Oklahoma. The tone is wistful, the surroundings wispy (with some puffs of pungency).
Cellar Sinema Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
A descent into the blackness of the projected image and the curators who flick the switches and grease up all moveable parts for hot action when the lights go out.
Burnout Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north.
Confessions Trailer (1972)
15 March 1972
"Just as outrageous is Curt McDowell's CONFESSIONS. McDowell, a graduate student at San Francisco Art Institute, opens his film with a confession to his mother and father, listing in exhausting detail his sins of the flesh.
Anita Needs Me Trailer (1964)
11 March 1964
An overheated tale of lust, guilt, and Mom, made as a response to the French New Wave.
Bongwater Trailer (1998)
18 April 1998
David is an artist and a pothead. He's fallen in love with the beautiful and sexy Serena, and things are going simply splendidly until poor David's house burns down.
The Fury of Frau Frankenstein Trailer (2005)
01 October 2005
"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 the San Francisco Art Institute).
Underground New York Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever.
Every Dog Has Its Day Trailer (1998)
12 June 1998
After getting fired from his teaching job and dumped by his girlfriend, Jack, a painter, embarks on a soul searching road trip with his dog, Scout.
Screamplay Trailer (1984)
02 November 1984
A talented writer, Edgar Allen, arrives in Hollywood with big dreams but is quickly pulled into a world of madness and depravity.
George Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
George (1976, revised in 1988) is a portrait of George Kuchar composed on a J-K optical printer with 4 scenes always running simultaneously through frame alternation .
Born of the Wind Trailer (1964)
04 March 1964
A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.
Sparkle's Tavern Trailer (1985)
01 June 1985
Siblings hide their ownership of a bordello from their mother. When she is visited by a man who shares the joys of sexual enlightenment with her, her entire world is turned upside down.
Dingleberry Jingles Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
In Dingleberry Jingles, George discusses all things Christmas with his cat, attends a wedding, and of course indulges in a holiday delicacy or two.
A Fatal Desire Trailer (2004)
13 April 2004
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 she flees a frigid environment to heat up a tepid career.
Nudes: A Sketchbook Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
"Curt McDowell's NUDES (A Sketchbook) is a paean to the filmmaker's closest friends: a series of portraits (beginning with one of George Kuchar) based on stylized, often graphically sexual interpretations of his or her personality.
Why Are You Weird? Trailer (2009)
30 April 2009
Curtis Jackson is studying performance art at one of the most prestigious art schools in the nation, yet he is still unable to live down the shame of his devastating past as a high school swimmer who was exposed as having webbed feet.
George Kuchar: An Interview Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
Since the 1980s, Kuchar has been creating brilliantly edited, hilarious, and often diaristic tapes made with dime-store props and not-so-special effects, using friends as actors and the "pageant that is life" for his studio.
Sins of the Fleshapoids Trailer (1965)
04 January 1965
One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids.
Galaxie Trailer (1966)
03 September 1966
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W.
Tootsies in Autumn Trailer (1963)
23 September 1963
[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness.
Metropolitan Monologues Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
The New York City summer is fueled by the sultry emanations of hot air that tumble off the tongues of potential thespians as they attempt to decipher the gastric guesswork embedded in the prose of the pre-production process.
365 Day Project Trailer (2007)
31 December 2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.
It Came from Kuchar Trailer (2009)
22 September 2009
It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers.
Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore Trailer (1998)
22 March 1998
A high schooler from suburbia gets in touch with her sexuality while working at a dingy movie theater in the city.
All Smiles and Sadness Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
McGuire constructs a murky black and white soap-opera world of endless, timeless, and placeless limbo, where the characters talk to each other entirely in clichés, bad poetry, and other contrite forms of speech — a short TV show in which nothing is resolved.
A Reason to Live Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
"This film is about depression, although it's not that depressing. I suppose it has a message of faith and hope in it .
Oasis of the Pharaohs Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Kuchar writes: "A hidden resort in Northern California opens its ancient secrets to a bride and groom who consummate their marriage on the peacock strewn terrain that muddies the tootsies of the infidels who munch through the mysteries with jaws of death — and rebirth.
Meow Meow Trailer (1970)
14 July 1970
An animated short about a man who finds a cat that turns into a lion. The lion becomes a famous singer who is kidnapped by gangsters.
I Was a Teenage Serial Killer Trailer (1993)
01 October 1993
Mary was a good girl until she decides to kill all the "sexist pigs". She of course encounters many of which, and enjoys killing them.
Grotto of the Gorgons Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
An electronic variety show featuring poetry, theatrics, dance, songs, and a plot concerning the cultivation of literary innocence and the preservation of Rondo Hatton's memory (a horror actor in 1940s B movies).
Andy's House of Gary Trailer (1993)
31 August 1993
A young painter, and his somewhat slower roommate, talk of paranormal occurrences in a room of charcoal canvasses and ephemeral renderings.
A Town Called Tempest Trailer (1963)
23 September 1963
Rarely has the cinema equaled such a spectacle! Seldom have movies probed so deeply into the rotten core of hypocrisy and weakness!
Color Me Shameless Trailer (1967)
29 December 1967
Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had a wonderful time working together.
Lust for Ecstasy Trailer (1964)
04 March 1964
“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I arrived on the set I ripped them up and let my emotional whims make chopped meat out of the performances and the story….
Vermin of the Vortex Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Alienation in academia beneath the chandeliered opulence of a political correctional facility that caters to clashing cultures with chicken fajitas and carefully worded alphabet soup.
Wieners and Buns Musical Trailer (1972)
12 May 1972
A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Club Vatican Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Kuchar’s childhood was heavily shaped by Catholic sexual repression and guilt. Movies acted as an escape from day-to-day life, a parallel reality that reveled in sin and sensation.
The Devil's Cleavage Trailer (1975)
28 November 1975
A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.
Wild Night in El Reno Trailer (1977)
06 September 1977
"In the late spring of each year the Great Plains states of the U.S. experience a season characterised by destructive tornadoes of awesome force.
Hold Me While I'm Naked Trailer (1966)
23 April 1966
Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.
The Gates of Gomorrah Trailer (2002)
01 March 2002
Shutters click in this clothes-dropping exhibition of photographic exposures sure to quicken the pulse of those in need of extremity expansion.
The Holiday Xmas Video of 1991 Trailer (1991)
25 December 1991
Amid the greenery of what should be a White Christmas, there sits the blackness close to my heart; and beyond that there bellows a legion of behemoths who know not shame nor guilt.
Mosholu Holiday Trailer (1967)
10 February 1967
A special guest appearance by Canadian TV star Bill Ronald along with the massive presence of "Mrs. Bronx" herself, Frances Leibowitz, and her girlfriend Iris, make this film a must-see for travel enthusiasts.
Lumps of Joy Trailer (2004)
25 December 2004
A holiday video of good cheer and feline ferocity, this annual tradition of videotaped festivities centers on the oriental and occidental tidbits that make the season worthy for bipeds on wheels as they pedal from one calorie laden event to another.
Ascension of the Demonoids Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
George Kuchar received his only funding grant for this film ($20,000 from the NEA), and so, freed from the usual financial restraints, he was determined to have a good time and make a “spectacle” with “tons of color” and dazzling superimpositions.
Ann Arbor Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
It stands as a mecca to 16mm film, and weathers the withering breath of a shifting climate. Bundled-up in opulence and optimism, the film festival goes onward and upward while I succumb to a glacial deposit that proves unflushable.