| Watch It Came From Kuchar online 2010visit | | | | making 8mm movies which were showcased in the |
| It Came From Kuchar (2009) is a documentary film | | | | then-burgeoning underground film scene alongside films |
| about twin underground filmmakers George and Mike | | | | by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage. |
| Kuchar directed by Jennifer Kroot (a former student | | | | After being laid off from a commercial art job in New |
| of George Kuchar's at the San Francisco Art Institute) | | | | York City, Kuchar was offered a teaching job in the |
| and produced by Tigerlily Films LLC. [1] Interviews for | | | | film department of the San Francisco Art Institute, |
| the film include John Waters, Christopher Coppola, | | | | where he has taught since 1971. It was in San |
| Wayne Wang, B. Ruby Rich, Atom Egoyan, Guy | | | | Francisco that he became involved with underground |
| Maddin, Bill Griffith, and Buck Henry. Funding for the film | | | | comics via his neighbors Art Spiegelman and Bill |
| came from many sources, including the Andy Warhol | | | | Griffith. They both wound up in his movies and George |
| Foundation and the Creative Work Fund.[2] | | | | wound up in their publications. |
| The film premiered at the South by Southwest film | | | | Planet Kuchar, a biopic of the life of George Kuchar, is |
| festival in Austin, Texas on 14 March 2009, and was | | | | being developed by Los Angeles production company |
| shown at Frameline in San Francisco and at | | | | Automat Pictures and producer Jeffrey Schwarz. |
| CineVegas in June 2009, and at Outfest in July 2009. | | | | It Came From Kuchar, a documentary film of the life of |
| George Kuchar (born August 31, 1942, New York City) | | | | George and Mike Kuchar by Jennifer Kroot, premiered |
| is an American film director, known for his "low-fi" | | | | at the South by Southwest film festival on 14 March |
| aesthetic, playful use of no-talent actors, plotless plots, | | | | 2009.[1] |
| and themeless themes. Trained as a commercial artist | | | | In 1997, the Kuchar brothers collaborated on a book, |
| in a vocational high school, the School of Industrial Art, | | | | Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool, a humorous |
| he drew weather maps for a local news show. During | | | | memoir discussing four decades of filmmaking with an |
| this period, he and his twin brother Mike Kuchar were | | | | introduction by filmmaker John Waters. |