George Kuchar Movies

A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of...

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...

This science fiction adventure centers on the interaction between a crew of Earthmen and their seduction by the love-hungry Amazons of the red...

Holed up in a Oklahoma motel room, George Kuchar witnesses the tornado-conjuring power of a talking ceramic figurine.

A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.

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...

George spends quality time with his friends Karen and Carla in this unconventional, glitchy, collaged holiday video. HOLIDAZE filters a gift...

"THE SUNSHINE SISTERS looks like a 1944 postcard that was shot in black and white, but colored with garish grease pencil reds, yellows and greens....

This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to...

An island. A mountain. A City of Angels who scoop up the pellets dropped by other winged creatures.

Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside...

Two men, two women, one God and many devils. Add a pinch of vengeance and a dash of mental illness, let simmer with high ideals, then take a mouthful...

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

"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle...

I remember the first day of class, George brought in that column from the Utah Herald Star, the ode to the truck driver, by Dan Armstrong (?), and...

A man and a hotel room. One of the best of the series. Writes Kuchar: "Set in central Oklahoma during May, I spend 3 weeks in a motel and get talked...

Two men hypnotize their roommate and attempt to force him to fall in love.

A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies.

A struggling screenwriter finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.

A marriage on the rocks that hurts the heart almost as much as the colors hurt the eye. “[A] full color portrait of a break-up that comes...