Recent Restorations: 8mm Films of George & Mike Kuchar
When
Dec 10, 2009 7:00 pm (Thursday)
Where
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
San Francisco, CA 94103
37.785923
-122.400751
What
George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos and legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s the...
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Description
George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos and legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming prove that the Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world. - Anthology Film Archives
Celebrating these filmmakers, whose nearly five decades of filmmaking have created the most joyously perverse and influential oeuvres of underground cinema, we present four of their earliest work (all recently preserved by Anthology Film Archives): "Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof", "Tootsies in Autumn", "A Woman Distressed" and "Lovers of Eternity" (featuring filmmakers Dov Lederberg and Jack Smith).
A reception at SFMOMA will immediately follow the screening.
Celebrating these filmmakers, whose nearly five decades of filmmaking have created the most joyously perverse and influential oeuvres of underground cinema, we present four of their earliest work (all recently preserved by Anthology Film Archives): "Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof", "Tootsies in Autumn", "A Woman Distressed" and "Lovers of Eternity" (featuring filmmakers Dov Lederberg and Jack Smith).
A reception at SFMOMA will immediately follow the screening.
Cost
$7 - $10More about San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
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