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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series present Extraordinary View of an Ordinary World:
Short Films of George Kuchar
Tuesday June 17, 2008
7pm
9pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
George Kuchar (born in 1942) is an American film director, known for his "low-fi"
aesthetic, playful use of no-talent actors, plotless plots, and themeless themes.
Beloved by filmmakers such as John Waters, Todd Solondz and Atom Egoyan, George
Kuchar has been working with the moving image for nearly half a century producing
over 200 films and videos.
In the 1950s, Kuchar and his twin brother Mike began producing ultra-low-budget
underground versions of Hollywood genre films, with names like I Was a Teenage Rumpot
and The Devil's Cleavage. These 8mm kitchen-sink masterpieces bore the distinctive
marks of what Susan Sontag called "camp," and positioned the Kuchar brothers as
the Bronx's answer to the downtown underground filmmaking scene, which quickly adopted
the Kuchars as their own, and in the work of Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, and others,
showed their influence.
The following films will be screened on 16mm:
- Hold Me While I'm Naked
- I, An Actress
- Cattle Mutilations
- Wild Night in El Reno
- The Mongreloid
- KY Kapers
21c is proud to partner with the Louisville Film Society in the continuing Monthly
Film Series. LFS is a publicly supported non-profit organization; support comes
from memberships, event admission, advertisement, contributions, donated materials,
and services.