Color me lurid: the weird world of George Kuchar

A compilation of underground filmmaker George Kuchar’s “crazed, revved-up and stripped down melodramas… perverse, funny but strangely poignant.” Twenty years before “Blue Velvet”, Kuchar and his twin brother Mike were obsessed with pop culture and kitsch. Part of the New York “underground”, they were unusual in wanting to make lavish melodramas featuring hand-painted titles, lurid colour and sound, tabloid-type tales, startling hair-dos and vivid costumes.

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Credits

director

George Kuchar

production company

British Film Institute

Argus Films

Duration

01:10:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303643

Language

English

Subject categories

Experimental

Experimental → Experimental films - United States

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United States, 1988

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