Video Data Bank is proud to represent the extensive video catalogs of renowned moving image makers George and Mike Kuchar.
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George Kuchar

Weather Diary 1

1986 | 01:21:00

“The tape ultimately addresses all the big questions — death, origin and family, religion — as well as the small discomforts of the body, only to reverse their order of importance.”

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.

George Kuchar

Cellar Sinema

1994 | 00:12:00

A descent into the blackness of the projected image and the curators who flick the switches and grease up all moveable parts for hot action when the lights go out.

George Kuchar

Studio 8

1985 | 00:22:15

The place where my students and I confront each other and glimpse into a world infiltrated by beloved infidels.

The Jersey Devil lives again in this work the students and I mounted (or disrobed) for skeptical scrutiny.

This is a journey to El Paso, Texas, where the Super-8 filmmaker Willie Varella and I have a dialogue amid domestic routines, motel accommodations, and emotional baggage, indicative of life on the road. 

George Kuchar

Pilgrimage

1992 | 00:29:00

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 and faith. A journey that incorporates pelicans, palaces, and platters of plenty.

George Kuchar

Orbits of Fear

1988 | 00:13:00

A military installation is beset by unidentified flying objects while the personnel try to come to grips with their own mysterious yearnings and the cumbersome protuberances that protrude from their own species.

George Kuchar

Fur Ball Blues

1996 | 00:26:00

Storms threaten to tarnish the Golden State as I wander through the rooms of my apartment, seeking a high in the lowering barometric pressure.

A big colorful rendering of the monster now terrorizing Puerto Rico and the hot-blooded people who have to deal with its deeper mysteries.

This video focuses on the troubles at a large hospital beset with calamity and vice. We meet the doctors and nurses and get a glimpse of their personal traumas.

A pileup of human refuse and super-human powers permeates this hour-long canvas of bits and pieces documenting the smash-up of a house of healing, as the physicians in charge short circuit amid the electronic wizardry beyond the Panasonic barrier…