Mike Kuchar Movies

A club for misfits who descend into a psychedelic underworld. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute.

From here to there.

Videomaker and spoken word performer David Finkelstein sleepwalks down into subconscious corridors.

"...Roy has set in and spread across the fabric of their lives."

At the 'Institute for Metaphysical Research and Spiritual Wellness', crackpots, perverts and guitar strumming UFO abductees struggle with the...

"Great woods, you frighten me like some cathedral's gloom, and awaken pastoral pipes on pagan heights."

"...Deep in the garden of the Artist's heart, ghosts of bygone worlds arise on gothic wings, calling forth delicious languors."

An evocative 16mm short shot during a visit to Nepal.

Enter a shimmering forest and encounter the Pot Boiling turbulence of pre-history tribes in conflict. See sacrificial virgins, volcanoes, knife...

He is Earth, Sky, and the Universe. He is Creation's creator.

[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives

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

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

They wait for voices to reach them, touch them!

A lady alone amid the flowers of a garden becomes the target of mischievous elements therein.

A rose scented breeze enters a young man's, winding its cool arms around him... Together they will roam the darkness of his life.

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.

Like ships in a harbor, men come and go in relationships. But, as one character says to another character who is heartbroken: "You sucked enough...

Two city dwellers in a relationship grown "tired," are near a deep forest where one hears the lure of Pan's Pipe calling.

He felt both dead and alive... having 'died' and having come back to the space of his 'living.'