Documentaries

IT CAME FROM KUCHAR

Jennifer M. Kroot
USA 2009
86 min
V'09

Long before YouTube, there were the outrageous, no-budget movies of underground, created by the filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar. George and Mike grew up in the Bronx in the '50s. At the age of twelve, they became obsessed with Hollywood melodramas and began making their own homespun melodramas with their aunt's 8mm camera. They used their friends and family as actors and their Bronx neighborhood as their set. Early Kuchar titles featured in this film include I Was a Teenage Rumpot and Born of the Wind. In the early '60s, alongside Andy Warhol, the Kuchar brothers shaped the New York underground film scene. Known as the \"8mm Mozarts\", their films were noticeably different than other underground films of the time. They were wildly funny, but also human and vulnerable.
Their films have inspired many filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all are interviewed in this film). Despite having high profile fans, the Kuchars remain largely unknown because they are only ambitious to make movies, not to be famous. Affectionately directed by one of George's former students, Jennifer Kroot, It Came from Kuchar will introduce you to the amazing Kuchar brothers - two brothers who love to make movies and continue to inspire others. (Chicago Underground Film Festival)

This film is screened together with Dumped and Swan Song.

Credits
  • Buck Henry
  • John Waters
  • George Kuchar
  • Mike Kuchar
  • Atom Egoyan
  • Jennifer M. Kroot
  • Chris Million
  • Lora Hirschberg
  • Tom Bullock
  • Randy Colosky
  • Ralph Spight
Tigerlily Pictures, LLC

Tigerlily Pictures, LLC 752 Clayton Street San Francisco, CA 94117, USA T +1 415 571 8517 lavinia@kucharfilm.com

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