EC-Docs-Camera Tricks: This is George Kuchar
EC-Docs-Camera Tricks - flv: A behind the scenes look at George Kuchar (b-movie grandfather) during the making of his latest cinematic conquest: Queen Konga made at the San Franciso Art Institute. By Ronaldo Barbachano Spring 2006. Featuring interviews/performances by, Linda Martinez, Bob Moricz, Evie Mpras, and others.
Blurb from www.sfai.edu about George Kuchar; “George Kuchar is associate professor in the Film department. His film and video work has been screened internationally, and he has been a major influence for many filmmakers, including John Waters and Todd Solondz. Kuchar has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Worldwide Video Festival First-Prize Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, the Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists from the American Film Institute, and others. He also contributed to the underground comic book, Arcade, for which he created a biography of H.P. Lovecraft. Kuchar’s recent major work, Secrets of the Shadow World, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is a 140-minute digital video epic.”
