George Kuchar

George Kuchar ranks among the most exciting and prolific independent videomakers working today. With his homemade Super-8 and 16mm potboilers and melodramas of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, he became legendary as one of the most distinctive and outrageous American underground filmmakers. After his 1980s transition to the video medium, he remained a master of genre manipulation and subversion, creating dozens of brilliantly edited, hilarious, observant, often diaristic tapes with an 8mm camcorder, dime-store props, not-so-special effects, and using friends as actors and the "pageant that is life" as his studio. In 1992, Kuchar received the prestigious Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists from the American Film Institute. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he makes many of his tapes in collaboration with his students.

Partial Filmography

Ascension Of The Demonoids (1985)
The X-People (1984)
Untitled Musical (1984)
Cattle Mutilations (1983)
Yolando (1980)
Aqueerius (1980)
Blips (1979)
Forever And Always (1978)
La Casa De Chorizo (1977)
Back To Nature (1976)
The Devil's Cleavage (1973)
The Sunshine Sisters (1972)
Portrait Of Ramona (1971)
Pagan Rhapsody (1970)
The Mammal Palace (1969)
Encyclopedia Of The Blessed (1968)
Knocturne (1968)
Eclipse Of The Sun Virgin (1967)
Color Me Shameless (1967)
Mosholu Holiday (1966)
Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966)
Corruption Of The Damned (1965)