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George Kuchar

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

67 relations: Andy Warhol, Anita Needs Me, Appetite, Art Spiegelman, Artist, Automat Pictures, Bathos, Big Beautiful Woman, Bill Griffith, Biographical film, Bomb (magazine), Camp (style), Diary, Documentary film, Eileen Myles, El Reno, Oklahoma, Fauvism, Felix Bernstein (artist), Film director, Filmmaking, Flatulence, Friendship, High School of Art and Design, Hold Me While I'm Naked, It Came from Kuchar, Jeffrey Schwarz, John Waters, Jonas Mekas, Kadist, Ken Jacobs, Kenneth Anger, Love, Manhattan, Mike Kuchar, MoMA PS1, National Film Registry, New York City, Observation, Oklahoma, Paul Vitello, Performance, Postmodernism, Prostate cancer, Psychedelia, Queer, Retrospective, Rosa von Praunheim, Ryan Trecartin, San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, ..., San Francisco Chronicle, Slash (punctuation), South by Southwest, Stan Brakhage, Teacher, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Thundercrack!, Tornado, Underground comix, Underground film, Urination, Video, Video art, We, the Normal, Weather, 8 mm film. Expand index (17 more) »

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

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Anita Needs Me

Anita Needs Me is a 1963 short film directed by George Kuchar and starring Maulis Pearson as Anita.

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Appetite

Appetite is the desire to eat food, sometimes due to hunger.

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Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman (born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus.

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Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.

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Automat Pictures

Automat Pictures is an entertainment production company based in Los Angeles.

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Bathos

Bathos (Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "bathos, n. Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1885. βάθος, "depth") is a literary term, coined by Alexander Pope in his 1727 essay "Peri Bathous", to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (i.e., pathos).

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Big Beautiful Woman

"Big Beautiful Woman" (commonly abbreviated as BBW) is a euphemism for an overweight woman.

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Bill Griffith

William Henry Jackson "Bill" Griffith (born January 20, 1944) is an American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy.

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb is a quarterly magazine edited by artists and writers.

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Camp (style)

Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value.

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Diary

A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.

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El Reno, Oklahoma

El Reno is a city in and county seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Fauvism

Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.

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Felix Bernstein (artist)

Felix Bernstein (born May 20, 1992) is a performance artist, video artist, writer, and cultural critic.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking (or, in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition.

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Flatulence

Flatulence is defined in the medical literature as "flatus expelled through the anus" or the "quality or state of being flatulent", which is defined in turn as "marked by or affected with gases generated in the intestine or stomach; likely to cause digestive flatulence".

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Friendship

Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people.

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High School of Art and Design

The High School of Art and Design is a Career and Technical Education high school in Manhattan, New York City.

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Hold Me While I'm Naked

Hold Me While I'm Naked, also known as Color Me Lurid, is a 1966 American underground short 16 mm film directed by George Kuchar.

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It Came from Kuchar

It Came from Kuchar is a 2009 documentary film about twin underground filmmakers George Kuchar and Mike Kuchar directed by Jennifer Kroot (a former student of George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute) and produced by Tigerlily Films LLC.

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Jeffrey Schwarz

Jeffrey Schwarz is an American producer and director known for his documentary work.

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John Waters

John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films.

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Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas (born December 24, 1922) is a Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema".

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Kadist

Kadist is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization with an international contemporary art collection.

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Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs (born 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American experimental filmmaker.

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Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer; February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author.

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Love

Love encompasses a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, ranging from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Mike Kuchar

Mike Kuchar (born August 31, 1942 in New York City) is an American underground filmmaker, actor, and artist.

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MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1 is one of the largest art institutions in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Observation

Observation is the active acquisition of information from a primary source.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Paul Vitello

Paul Vitello is an American journalist who has been writing for a variety of publications since 1972.

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Performance

Performance is completion of a task with application of knowledge, skills and abilities.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system.

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Psychedelia

Psychedelia is the subculture, originating in the 1960s, of people who often use psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescaline (found in peyote) and psilocybin (found in some mushrooms).

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Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or cisgender.

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Retrospective

A retrospective (from Latin retrospectare, "look back"), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past.

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Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim (born 25 November 1942) is a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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Ryan Trecartin

Ryan Trecartin (born 1981, Webster, Texas) is an American artist and filmmaker currently based in Athens, Ohio.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is a private, non-profit college of contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Slash (punctuation)

The slash is an oblique slanting line punctuation mark.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Stan Brakhage

James Stanley Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003), better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker.

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Teacher

A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Thundercrack!

Thundercrack! is a 1975 American pornographic black comedy horror film written, edited, shot, and directed by Curt McDowell and written by George Kuchar based on a story by McDowell and Mark Ellinger.

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Tornado

A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

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Underground comix

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature.

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Underground film

An underground film is a film that is out of the mainstream either in its style, genre, or financing.

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Urination

Urination is the release of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Video art

Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium.

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We, the Normal

We, the Normal is a 1987 video by American video artist George Kuchar.

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Weather

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.

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8 mm film

8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the film strip is eight millimeters wide.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kuchar

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