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Photoplays

Mike Kuchar

2000 00:39:20 EnglishColorStereo4:3DV video

Description

In these "plays" for the camera, the lushness of an afternoon tryst with it’s perfumed colors is displayed center stage. You’ll experience too, the oppressive moods that permeate the lonely streets of a city at night and witness the antics of it’s desperate, guilt-ridden inhabitants.

But there is also, here in these PhotoPlays, the bright sun on sparkling waves that wet the flesh of bodies in search of pleasures that walk on earth.

... All are on view for you to absorb.

This title comprises Tryst (2000), I Face the Night (2000), and On a Shore Beneath the Sky (1997) which were compiled into this form by Mike Kuchar in 2022.

About Mike Kuchar

Mike Kuchar, cinematographer, painter and writer and brother of George Kuchar, was born in New York City.  He began making 8mm movies in the 1950's, switching over to 16mm film production in 1960, and continues now, producing short motion pictures in the video and digital formats.  Mike and George Kuchar were the co-recipients of the "Vanguard Director Award" at the 11th CineVegas Film Festival, 2009, and the 2009 "Frameline Award" at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.

"Film purists," says Mike, "tend to snub the digital medium — but as far as I'm concerned, if it allows the image to move and make noise, I'll gladly use it... and the format fits perfectly into my budgets too!"

Mike Kuchar is a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow for his work in film and video.