The World of George Kuchar
Antología de films en video del cineasta de culto George Kuchar, referente ineludible de realizadores como John Waters y Todd Solondz.
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Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987 | 1:00:00
The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with him—are the themes that run through this existential diary of daily life. McDowell was dying from AIDS-related...
We, The Normal
1988 | 11:00
On a back-to-nature trip to Boulder, Colorado, George goes to the mountains, but goes on the rocks emotionally.
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Cult of the Cubicles
1987 | 45:00
In this classic example of the Kuchar style, George travels to the Bronx to visit his mother and to see old classmates from art school. “We see what they have become or are becoming or already became.”
Creeping Crimson
1987 | 15:00
George visits his mother in the hospital on Halloween and contemplates the autumn colors.
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Rainy Season
1987 | 28:00
Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things bothering me at this time, or maybe it was one thing that broke into many pieces."
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Weather Diary 3
1988 | 25:00
George goes to Oklahoma, but there's a lull in storm activity. It's spring, and though there's romance in the air, the lightning just doesn’t strike; so George makes his own rain—of sorts. Despite the drought, the videos must go on.
500 Millibars to Ecstasy
1989 | 16:00
The dark and sloppy side of touring college towns with your work. An internal expose of external secretions that unfortunately make it to the boob tube in full color.
Passage to Wetness
1990 | 14:53
An island. A mountain. A City of Angels who scoop up the pellets dropped by other winged creatures.
Scarlet Droppings
1991 | 15:00
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.
Weather Diary 6
1990 | 28:30
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 that submerges porcelain bottoms in a sea of unmentionable froth.
Point 'n Shoot
1989 | 05:08
A lavish home is visited, shutters click, bottoms are exposed, water splashes and a welcome wetness stains an area unquenched for so long. A jacuzzi bubbles to life in a bedroom community that floats to sleep on aqua-filled rubber.
Rocky Interlude
1990 | 10:00
A trip to a barren landscape of jagged peaks and deep crevasses becomes a playground for an over-dressed hiker and his beefcake buddy as they secrete and imbibe fluids from various containers.
Snap 'n Snatch
1990 | 05:33
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.
Award
1992 | 20:13
A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.
Route 666
1994 | 07:51
The strings of fate manipulate the living and the dead against a landscape of water vapor and watercolors which make more palatable the unacceptable and the undigestable.
Uncle Evil
1996 | 07:02
The young and the innocent at the mercy of a palpable presence oozing menace and scarlet-stained goodness as a strawberry sundae melts under the glare of future hell-firestorms in search of kindling.
Season of Sorrow
1996 | 12:23
Ice falls from the sky as tears plip-plop onto wall-to-wall carpeting. No degree of renovation can enliven the dead that we mourn in our hearts as the storm of the centuries assails our heads with memories of the passing parade that got rained on...
The Inmate
1997 | 15:45
The splendor of a mountain lake is clouded by the musings of a brain in memory mode. The head relives the heartbreak of suburbia and the vacancies that fill every motel on the edge of nowhere. The body moves through a rainbow palette of indelible...
Metropolitan Monologues
2000 | 44:09
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. The video camera...
Cyclone Alley Ceramics
2000 | 12:00
Alone in my room at the El Reno Inn, way out west from Oklahoma City, I face a big picture window that overlooks the refuse of Route 66 to ponder the fate of trailer trash in Twisterville. The skies darken and rumble to the sounds of Mother...
The Kingdom by the Sea
2002 | 20:00
The spirit of poets permeates the space/time occupied by an assortment of dinner engagements that occasionally erupt into physical or verbal assaults on the taste buds. Flowers of evil are absent from this foray into the spoken word, as the...
Burnout
2003 | 19:47
A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north. It is there that we witness the cooling fogs and diving mammals of maritime yore and sail free in winds...
Supercell
2004 | 09:16
Clouds abound in this short meditation on vaporous masses that flow across the borders of our windowpanes, leaving in their wake the wreckage of discarded diets and sugar coated emptiness. Into those holes that surround us with the sweetness of...
Song of the Whoopee Wind
2005 | 12:00
A California Christmas season ushers in an array of holiday visuals designed to feed the hunger of soiled souls in search of truffle filled delights. A glittering seaport of electric lights helps the viewer to see through the murk of isolation as...
George Kuchar: An Interview
2005 | 46:00
Beloved by filmmakers such as John Waters and Todd Solondz, George Kuchar has been working with the moving image for nearly half a century. In the 1950s, Kuchar and his twin brother Mike...
Evangelust
1988 | 35:00
A deliberately tasteless drama about televangelist scandals.
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Kaponga Island
2004 | 27:00
A series of abrupt vignettes and transitional montages paint a torrid portrait of a tropical isle in the grip of terror. Linda Martinez stars in this latest atrocity from studio 8 in the San Francisco Art Institute and her co-stars don’t find...