the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Presents
Confessions of a Teenage Rumpot: The Midnight Movies of GeoRGE and Mike Kuchar
Sins of the Fleshapoids, Mike Kuchar, 1965
Curated by Malic Amalya
with Mike Kuchar in attendance
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
October 14, 2012
“The Kuchar brothers gave me the self-confidence to believe in my own tawdry vision.” John Waters, 1997
About Confessions:
Inspired by Hollywood, plagued by Catholicism, and equipped with an 8mm camera, twins George and Mike Kuchar began documenting their lascivious desires and unhinged imaginations as teenagers in the 1950s. By the 1960s, they had shifted from 8mm to 16mm filmmaking, and their sordid tales of lust, revolt, sin, and flesh were screened alongside work by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage.
This program celebrates the lives and work of the Kuchar brothers, their filmmaking legacy, their dazzling low-fi aesthetics, and the decade that launched them from their mother’s aparmtne in the Brox into the underworld of avant-guarde cinema (Amalya, 2012)
Film Program
The Kuchar Brothers, I was a Teenage Rumpot (1960)
The Kuchar Brothers, Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof (1961)
Mike Kuchar, Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965)
George Kuchar, Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966)
George Kuchar, Eclipse of the Sun Virgin (1967)
George Kuchar, Knocturn (1968)
Mike Kuchar, Swan Song (2009)
Mike Kuchar & Malic Amalya outside of the Northwest Film Forum; October 14, 2012
Mike Kuchar at the NWFF, 2012
