George Kuchar Movies

  • 2000
    Cyclone Alley Ceramics

    Cyclone Alley Ceramics

    Cyclone Alley Ceramics

    6.52000HD

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

    Cyclone Alley Ceramics
  • 1990
    Weather Diary 6

    Weather Diary 6

    Weather Diary 6

    01990HD

    Scenes from a vacation. Music comes on loud and clear and washes over a series of visual impressions of the land and the sky and the faulty plumbing...

    Weather Diary 6
  • 1986
    The Last Hello

    The Last Hello

    The Last Hello

    81986HD

    A friend visits from Canada and we relive the past as the future becomes more and more obscured by a cloud of burning vegetation wrapped in cigarette...

    The Last Hello
  • 1988
    Weather Diary 3

    Weather Diary 3

    Weather Diary 3

    51988HD

    Set in and around an El Reno motel, the tape records George's growing friendship with a young weather expert.

    Weather Diary 3
  • 1986
    Video Album 3

    Video Album 3

    Video Album 3

    01986HD

    Curt McDowell, the director, on his feet and weaving in and out of this televised tapestry with gracious grossness and Hoosier-based hospitality.

    Video Album 3
  • 2009
    Jamboree Journey

    Jamboree Journey

    Jamboree Journey

    02009HD

    In this wide-screen travelogue the viewer shares in the excitement of a Texas film festival, the cuisine of the not so rich and famous, and the...

    Jamboree Journey
  • 2008
    FlashBulb Alley

    FlashBulb Alley

    FlashBulb Alley

    02008HD

    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...

    FlashBulb Alley
  • 1990
    Snap 'n Snatch

    Snap 'n Snatch

    Snap 'n Snatch

    01990HD

    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.

    Snap 'n Snatch
  • 1992
    Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage

    01992HD

    A voyage through a California Christmas that begins in the turd-smeared streets of San Francisco and ends in a botanical wonder of ethnic endurance...

    Pilgrimage
  • 2003
    Visitation Rites

    Visitation Rites

    Visitation Rites

    02003HD

    Alone in an Oklahoma motel room with a mute companion, the talkative one speaks the language of memory as pussycats feast from a canned cornucopia....

    Visitation Rites
  • 2006
    Faulty Fathoms

    Faulty Fathoms

    Faulty Fathoms

    02006HD

    A wide screen portrait of people, pets and places, this Frisco based video immerses the viewer in a placid flow of images that hint of darker depths...

    Faulty Fathoms
  • 2006
    Garden of Goodies

    Garden of Goodies

    Garden of Goodies

    02006HD

    This being an annual, Xmas holiday video, you can be guaranteed good cheer on a platter and maybe a plop in a bowl or two. In this video we visit a...

    Garden of Goodies
  • 1987
    1980 Seven

    1980 Seven

    1980 Seven

    91987HD

    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...

    1980 Seven
  • 1989
    Love Me True

    Love Me True

    Love Me True

    91989HD

    Love is in the air as newlyweds chomp on cake, brides marry werewolves, and hatchets fall on adulterous heads. Amid the real-life romance is mixed...

    Love Me True
  • 2009
    Zombies of Zanzibar

    Zombies of Zanzibar

    Zombies of Zanzibar

    02009HD

    Made with my production class at the art asylum called the San Francisco Art Institute, this wide-screen drama of run-a-way spectacle and crazed...

    Zombies of Zanzibar
  • 2004
    Temple of Torment

    Temple of Torment

    Temple of Torment

    02004HD

    There is so much to absorb: the wetness from the sky. The hooded figure in the box. A big plate of pasta, and that chair on wheels. Messages of moral...

    Temple of Torment
  • 2008
    Pictographic Piles

    Pictographic Piles

    Pictographic Piles

    02008HD

    As I rummage through a stack of photos the memories of this and that plus who’s what and where rush in helter skelter. There’s a lot to...

    Pictographic Piles
  • 1993
    Ann Arbor

    Ann Arbor

    Ann Arbor

    101993HD

    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...

    Ann Arbor
  • 2010
    Jewel of Jeopardy

    Jewel of Jeopardy

    Jewel of Jeopardy

    02010HD

    Linda Martinez stars in this sequel to the horror series, which relishes in colorful detail the misadventures of Sherry Frankenstein. Made with my...

    Jewel of Jeopardy
  • 1966
    Leisure

    Leisure

    Leisure

    91966HD

    A dramatized social commentary with the horrifying impact of a three-hundred ton chunk of margarine.

    Leisure