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==Films==
==Films==
George Kuchar directed over 200 films and videos (including over 15 with his twin brother Mike), many of them short films by students in his courses at the [[San Francisco Art Institute]]. His video work is archived at the [http://vdb.org/artists/george-kuchar Video Data Bank] and Electronic Arts Intermix.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eai.org/artistTitles.htm?id=313|title=Electronic Arts Intermix - George Kuchar}}</ref> In the Critics' Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century, appearing originally in ''[[The Village Voice]]'' (4 January 2000), ''Hold Me While I'm Naked'' was ranked 52nd.<ref>[http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html Village Voice Poll at AMC Filmsite]</ref>
George Kuchar directed over 200 films and videos (including over 15 with his twin brother Mike), many of them short films by students in his courses at the [[San Francisco Art Institute]]. His video work is archived at the [http://vdb.org/artists/george-kuchar Video Data Bank] and [http://www.eai.org/index.htm Electronic Arts Intermix].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eai.org/artistTitles.htm?id=313|title=Electronic Arts Intermix - George Kuchar}}</ref> In the Critics' Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century, appearing originally in ''[[The Village Voice]]'' (4 January 2000), ''Hold Me While I'm Naked'' was ranked 52nd.<ref>[http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html Village Voice Poll at AMC Filmsite]</ref>


==Films featuring George Kuchar==
==Films featuring George Kuchar==
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*''Last Hello'' (1986)
*''Last Hello'' (1986)
*''Video Album 3'' (1986)
*''Video Album 3'' (1986)
*''Rainy Season'' (1987)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=755 ''Rainy Season'' (1987)]
*''Weather Diary 2'' (1987)
*''Weather Diary 2'' (1987)
*''Caged Culture'' (1987)
*''Caged Culture'' (1987)
*''Creeping Crimson'' (1987)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=549 ''Creeping Crimson'' (1987)]
*''Cult of the Cubicles'' (1987)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=1267 ''Cult of the Cubicles'' (1987)]
*''Muffled Darkness'' (1987)
*''Muffled Darkness'' (1987)
*''Video Album 5: The Thursday People'' (1987)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=1745 ''Video Album 5: The Thursday People'' (1987)]
*''We, The Normal'' (1987)
*''We, The Normal'' (1987)
*''Xmas 1987 New Years'' (1987)
*''Xmas 1987 New Years'' (1987)
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*''Low Light Life'' (1988)
*''Low Light Life'' (1988)
*''Mecca of the Frigid'' (1988)
*''Mecca of the Frigid'' (1988)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=1745 ''Precious Products'' (1988)]
*''Return to the House of Pain'' (1988)
*''Return to the House of Pain'' (1988)
*''Evangelust'' (1988)
*''Evangelust'' (1988)
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*''Orbits of Fear'' (1988)
*''Orbits of Fear'' (1988)
*''Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness'' (1989)
*''Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness'' (1989)
*''Migration of the Blubberoids'' (1989)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=1989 ''Migration of the Blubberoids'' (1989)]
*''Precious Products'' (1989)
*''Precious Products'' (1989)
*''Weather Diary 5'' (1989)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=3509 ''Weather Diary 5'' (1989)]
*''The Deafening Goo'' (1989)
*''The Deafening Goo'' (1989)
*''Love Me True'' (1989)
*''Love Me True'' (1989)
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*''500 Millibars to Ecstasy'' (1989)
*''500 Millibars to Ecstasy'' (1989)
*''Chili Line Stops Here'' (1989)
*''Chili Line Stops Here'' (1989)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=3509 ''The Plucking of the Succulents'' (1989)
*''Point 'n Shoot'' (1989)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=769 ''Point 'n Shoot'' (1989)]
*''Pictures at an Exhibitionist's'' (1989)
*''Pictures at an Exhibitionist's'' (1989)
*''Vile Cargo'' (1989)
*''Vile Cargo'' (1989)
*''The Web of Dr. Satan'' (1989)
*''The Web of Dr. Satan'' (1989)
*''Wet Dreams'' (1989)
*''Wet Dreams'' (1989)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=833 ''Secrets of the Shadow World'' (1988-1989)]
*''Letter from New York'' (1990)
*''Letter from New York'' (1990)
*''Weather Diary 6'' (1990)
*''Weather Diary 6'' (1990)
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*''Rocky Interlude'' (1990)
*''Rocky Interlude'' (1990)
*''Edible Atrocities'' (1990)
*''Edible Atrocities'' (1990)
*''Snap 'n Snatch'' (1990)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=4335 ''Snap 'n Snatch'' (1990)]
*''Curse of the Kurva'' (1990)
*''Curse of the Kurva'' (1990)
*''Munchkins of the Melody Manor'' (1990)
*''Munchkins of the Melody Manor'' (1990)
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*''Snake Goddess'' (1991)
*''Snake Goddess'' (1991)
*''Foto Spread'' (1991)
*''Foto Spread'' (1991)
*''The Fall of the House of Yasmin'' (1991)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=1431 ''The Fall of the House of Yasmin'' (1991)]
*''Artists in Residence'' (1991)
*[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=1511 ''Artists in Residence'' (1991)]
*''Scarlet Droppings'' (1991)
*''Scarlet Droppings'' (1991)
*''Weather Watch'' (1991)
*''Weather Watch'' (1991)

Revision as of 17:52, 13 April 2012

George Kuchar
George Kuchar on the set of Orphans Of The Cosmos (2008)
BornAugust 31, 1942 (1942-08-31)
New York, New York
DiedSeptember 6, 2011
San Francisco, California
Occupation(s)Director, Artist, Teacher

George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011)[1] was an American underground film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic.

Early life and career

Kuchar trained as a commercial artist at the School of Industrial Art, now known as the High School of Art and Design, a vocational school in New York City. He graduated in 1960 and drew weather maps for a local news show. During this period, he and his twin brother Mike Kuchar were making 8mm movies, which were showcased in the then-burgeoning underground film scene alongside films by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage.

After being laid off from a commercial art job in New York City, Kuchar was offered a teaching job in the film department of the San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught from 1971 until early 2011. [2]

In San Francisco, Kuchar became involved with underground comics via his neighbors Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith. They both wound up in his movies and George wound up in their publications.

Films

George Kuchar directed over 200 films and videos (including over 15 with his twin brother Mike), many of them short films by students in his courses at the San Francisco Art Institute. His video work is archived at the Video Data Bank and Electronic Arts Intermix.[3] In the Critics' Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century, appearing originally in The Village Voice (4 January 2000), Hold Me While I'm Naked was ranked 52nd.[4]

Films featuring George Kuchar

Planet Kuchar, a biopic of the life of George Kuchar, is being developed by Los Angeles production company Automat Pictures and producer Jeffrey Schwarz.

It Came From Kuchar, a documentary film of the life of George and Mike Kuchar by Jennifer Kroot, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on 14 March 2009.[5]

In 1997, the Kuchar brothers collaborated on a book Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool, a memoir discussing four decades of filmmaking with an introduction by director John Waters.

Death

George Kuchar died on 6 September 2011 in San Francisco, just past his 69th birthday on August 31st, of complications related to prostate cancer.[6][7]

Filmography

(The Kuchar brothers, in British punctuation tradition, capitalize articles, prepositional phrases, and contractions in their movie titles, when working together or independently)

  • The Wet Destruction Of The Atlantic Empire (1954)
  • Screwball (1957)
  • The Naked And The Nude (1957)
  • The Slasher (1958)
  • The Thief And The Stripper (1959)
  • A Tub Named Desire (1960)
  • I Was A Teenage Rumpot (1960)
  • Pussy On A Hot Tin Roof (1961)
  • Born Of The Wind (1961)
  • A Woman Distressed (1962)
  • A Town Called Tempest (1962)
  • Night Of The Bomb (1962)
  • Lust For Ectsasy (1963)
  • The Confessions Of Babette (1963)
  • Tootsies In Autumn (1963)
  • Anita Needs Me (1963)
  • The Lovers Of Eternity (1963)
  • Corruption Of The Damned (1965)
  • Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966)
  • Leisure (1966)
  • Mosholu Holiday (1966)
  • Color Me Shameless (1967)
  • Eclipse Of The Sun Virgin (1967)
  • The Lady From Sands Point (1967)
  • Knocturne (1968)
  • Unstrap Me (1968)
  • House Of The White People (1968)
  • Encyclopedia Of The Blessed (1968)
  • The Mammal Palace (1969)
  • Pagan Rhapsody (1970)
  • Portrait Of Ramona (1971)
  • The Sunshine Sisters (1972)
  • The Devil's Cleavage (1973)
  • Thundercrack! (1975)(screenplay)
  • Back To Nature (1976)
  • A Reason To Live (1976)
  • La Casa De Chorizo (1977)
  • KY Kapers (1977)
  • Wild Night In El Reno (1977)
  • Forever And Always (1978)
  • Mongreloid (1978)
  • Blips (1979)
  • Aqueerius (1980)
  • The Nocturnal Immaculation (1980)
  • Yolando (1980)
  • Cattle Mutilations (1983)
  • Mom (1983)
  • Untitled Musical (1984)
  • The X-People (1984)
  • Ascension Of The Demonoids (1985)

Produced at the San Francisco Art Institute:

  • Destination Damnation (1972)
  • Carnal Bipeds (1973)
  • I Married A Heathen (1974)
  • The Desperate And The Deep (1975)
  • I, An Actress (1977)
  • The Asphalt Ribbon (1977)
  • One Night A Week (1978)
  • Prescrition [sic] In Blue (1978)
  • The Power Of The Press (1979)
  • Remember Tomorrow (1979)
  • Symphony For A Sinner (1979)
  • How To Chose [sic] A Wife (1980)
  • The Woman And The Dress (1980)
  • Ochokpug (1980)
  • Boulevard Kishka (1981)
  • The Oneers (1982)
  • Ms. Hyde (1983)
  • Club Vatican (1984)
  • The Legend Of Thelma White (1985)
  • Motel Capri (1986)
  • La Noche D'Amour (1986)
  • PRC Musical (1986)
  • Insanitorium (1987)
  • Summer Of No Return (1988)
  • La Verbotene Voyage (1989)
  • A Fatal Desire (2004)
  • The Crypt of Frankenstein (2008)
  • Zombies of Zanzibar (2010)

Videography

  • Studio 8 (1985)
  • Video Album (1985)
  • Weather Diary 1 (1986)
  • Greetings from Boulder (1986)
  • Video Album 2 (1986)
  • Last Hello (1986)
  • Video Album 3 (1986)
  • Rainy Season (1987)
  • Weather Diary 2 (1987)
  • Caged Culture (1987)
  • Creeping Crimson (1987)
  • Cult of the Cubicles (1987)
  • Muffled Darkness (1987)
  • Video Album 5: The Thursday People (1987)
  • We, The Normal (1987)
  • Xmas 1987 New Years (1987)
  • Calling Dr. Petrov (1987)
  • East By Southwest (1987)
  • The Desert Within (1987)
  • 1980 Seven (1987)
  • Weather Diary 3 (1988)
  • Weather Diary 4 (1988)
  • The Celluloids (1988)
  • L.A. Screening Workshop (1988)
  • Low Light Life (1988)
  • Mecca of the Frigid (1988)
  • Precious Products (1988)
  • Return to the House of Pain (1988)
  • Evangelust (1988)
  • The Hurt that Fades (1988)
  • Motivation of the Carcasoids (1988)
  • Terror By Twilight (1988)
  • Orbits of Fear (1988)
  • Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness (1989)
  • Migration of the Blubberoids (1989)
  • Precious Products (1989)
  • Weather Diary 5 (1989)
  • The Deafening Goo (1989)
  • Love Me True (1989)
  • Hefner's Heifers (1989)
  • Say Yes to No (1989)
  • 500 Millibars to Ecstasy (1989)
  • Chili Line Stops Here (1989)
  • [http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=3509 The Plucking of the Succulents (1989)
  • Point 'n Shoot (1989)
  • Pictures at an Exhibitionist's (1989)
  • Vile Cargo (1989)
  • The Web of Dr. Satan (1989)
  • Wet Dreams (1989)
  • Secrets of the Shadow World (1988-1989)
  • Letter from New York (1990)
  • Weather Diary 6 (1990)
  • Kiss of the Veggie Vixen (1990)
  • Rocky Interlude (1990)
  • Edible Atrocities (1990)
  • Snap 'n Snatch (1990)
  • Curse of the Kurva (1990)
  • Munchkins of the Melody Manor (1990)
  • Passage to Wetness (1990)
  • Saga of Magda (1990)
  • Tempest in a Tea Room (1990)
  • The Warming of the Hell House (1990)
  • Winter Hostilities (1991)
  • Gastronomic Getaway (1991)
  • Snake Goddess (1991)
  • Foto Spread (1991)
  • The Fall of the House of Yasmin (1991)
  • Artists in Residence (1991)
  • Scarlet Droppings (1991)
  • Weather Watch (1991)
  • Indian Summer (1991)
  • Come Forth, Julyowa (1991)
  • The Holiday Xmas Video of 1991 (1991)
  • The Redhead from Riverside Terrace (1991)
  • Going Nowhere (1992)
  • Interior Vacuum (1992)
  • Sherman Acres (1992)
  • George Kuchar Goes to Work with Today's Youth (1992)
  • Big Ones Hurt (1992)
  • Pilgrimage (1992)
  • Chat 'n 'Chew (1992)
  • Demonatrix of Kebrine Castle (1992)
  • Impaction of the Igneous (1992)
  • Indigo Blues (1992)
  • Award (1992)
  • Ann Arbor (1992)
  • Graffiti Junction (1993)
  • The Tower of the Astro-Cyclops (1993)
  • Andy's House of Gary (1993)
  • ID Came from Inner Space (1993)
  • Dial A Kvetch (1993)
  • Bayou of the Blue Behemoth (1993)
  • Glacier Park Video Views (1993)
  • Melody for Maria (1993)
  • Story of Ruthy (1993)
  • Sunbelt Serenade, Part 1: Oklahoma (1993)
  • Sunbelt Serenade, Part 2: Los Angeles (1993)
  • Sunbelt Serenade, Part 3: Arizona (1993)
  • Isleton (1993)
  • Trinity (1993)
  • Kitchenetiquette (1993)
  • Video Wallpaper Series (1993)
  • The Gifted Goon (1994)
  • Going Hollywood (1994)
  • Cellar Sinema (1994)
  • Dingleberry Jingles (1994)
  • Jungle Jezebel (1994)
  • Sins of Bunny Luv (1994)
  • Baldies of Burgermeister Bungalow (1994)
  • The Cage of Nicholas (1994)
  • Chow Down on Cheney Street (1994)
  • Felines of Castle Frauline (1994)
  • Rancho Roulette (1994)
  • Holidaze, 1994 (1994)
  • Route 666 (1994)
  • Tales of the Twilight Typist (1994)
  • Urchins of Ungawa (1994)
  • Nirvana of the Nebbishites (1994)
  • Woman of the 90's (1995)
  • Portraiture in Black (1995)
  • The Confessions of Nina Noir (1995)
  • Society Slut (1995)
  • The Unclean (1995)
  • Slippage in the Garden of Udon (1995)
  • Omewenne (1995)

Bibliography

  • Jack Stevenson, Desperate Visions 1: The Films of John Waters and George & Mike Kuchar (UK: Creation Books, 1996) ISBN 1-871592-34-8
  • George and Mike Kuchar, Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool (Berkeley CA: Zanja Pr Dangerous Concepts, 1997) ISBN 0-915906-34-1

References

  1. ^ Paul Vitello, New York Times (8 September 2011)
  2. ^ Paul Vitello, New York Times (8 September 2011)
  3. ^ "Electronic Arts Intermix - George Kuchar".
  4. ^ Village Voice Poll at AMC Filmsite
  5. ^ It Came From Kuchar at IMDB
  6. ^ Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle (8 September 2011)
  7. ^ Paul Vitello, New York Times (8 September 2011)

External links

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