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The Celtic Crevasse

George Kuchar

2002 00:32:00 United StatesEnglishColorStereo

Description

Taped during the summer months in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts. This vacation video explores the restrictions imposed by dietary fears and the need to appease fresh and rotten appetites. Encompassing both the splendors of a maritime nature and the land locked decadence of the delicacy dependent, the viewer is catapulted from a big city environment to a resort town mentality of mellowness and salt encrusted habits. On the journey to more sublime table manners we skirt the buttocks of repressed fermentation to get a whiff of more floral degeneracy inherent in the oceanic wonderland beyond the green cloud of a metropolitan melting pot. Come fry in the sun and splash in the fluff of summer’s most sensual treats which are sugar free yet satisfying to those who relish aging meat with their cheesecake (which is in short abundance in this weight conscious concoction). There’s some beefcake in need of tenderizing but the less said about that dish the better!

About George Kuchar

George Kuchar ranks as one of the most exciting and prolific American independent film and videomakers. With his homemade Super 8 and 16mm potboilers and melodramas of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, he became legendary as a distinctive and outrageous underground filmmaker whose work influenced many other artists, including Andy Warhol, John Waters, and David Lynch. After his 1980s transition to video, he remained a master of genre manipulation and subversion, creating hundreds of brilliantly edited, hilarious, observant, often diaristic videos with an 8mm camcorder, dime-store props, not-so-special effects, using friends as actors, and the “pageant that is life” as his studio.

In 1984 Kuchar received the Los Angeles Film Critics Award in the Experimental/Independent category. In 1992, he received the prestigious Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists from the American Film Institute. In 1996 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for forty years, where he made many videos in collaboration with his students.

"...The best for last, though: the filmmaker George Kuchar... When the day arrives — and it will — to appoint an official United States cultural ambassador to Outer Space, Mr. Kuchar is the obvious choice. I will say no more. See his films. He is beyond enigmatic. He is it. I salute him."

— Holland Cotter, Review of the Good Morning Midnight exhibition at Casey Kaplan Gallery, The New York Times, July 27th, 2007

All title descriptions by George Kuchar unless otherwise noted.

Also see:

George Kuchar: An Interview

The World of George Kuchar, DVD Box Set available for Institutional and Individual Purchase