George Kuchar Movies

This piece is sort of a prologue to East by Southwest. I prepare for that trip while visiting local artists here in San Francisco. You get to see...

Performed by my graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute, this one act play that I had written gets the best production values that $500...

16mm film by George Kuchar.

One of Kuchars weather diary series out in Oklahoma. The tone is wistful, the surroundings wispy (with some puffs of pungency). The TV is on and the...

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

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...

Another San Francisco Art Insitute class movie by George Kuchar

Attempting to apologize for the lack of good weather in Weather Diary 3, George arrives in Milwaukee only to find the drought back in full swing....

In a motel room, things start to get alive.

"One of the earlier video diaries where George vacations in Colorado, reflects on scenery and animal life and visits people." – Video Data Bank

A trip to Winnipeg introduces the viewer to moments of Canadian cuisine and to the easily digestible tidbits that make up the WNDX Film/Video...

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...

An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.

Waves crash on rocks as tongues flap in the wind about all things cinematic. People chirp and chew in various states of dress and undress as the...

"In a motel in El Reno, Oklahoma, George observes the weather and copes with leaking air conditioning, food shopping, loneliness, television, and...

An actress and a director run through a melodramatic scene, speaking to a mannequin.

This final weather diary travels through some rough inner and outer domains. Social interactions blend more smoothly than the clash of air masses...

Tropical Vulture is a cross-generational project which highlights the artistic influences between George Kuchar, a Bay Area legend of independent...

A volume of illustrated horrors arrives to stimulate the chatter of those who behold its weighty extravagance. The locales shift from plate to plate...

George Kuchar travels to Oklahoma in search of tornadoes, spends most of his time watching TV and eating food.