Arts & Entertainment
It Came from Kuchar
In Person: Filmmaker Jennifer M. Kroot & George Kuchar
Bay Area filmmaker Jennifer M. Kroot and independent filmmaking legend George Kuchar will present and discuss a screening of Kroot's touching and hilarious documentary about George and Mike Kuchar. These intrepid twins from the Bronx began making movies as kids more than 50 years ago, together and then individually. Their homemade Hollywood melodramas, early staples in the New York Underground scene, bore such titles as Hold Me While I'm Naked and Sins of the Fleshapoids and became an immediate influence on John Waters and Buck Henry and a future inspiration for Guy Maddin, Cory McAbee and Atom Egoyan, all of whom appear in this movie to pay their respects. Since the 1970s George has been teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute, where Kroot was one of his many students over the years. Along with helping to present Kroot's documentary, George Kuchar will premiere a new short film from his video diary series. (US 2009) 86 min. plus short and discussion.