Date: 31 March 2006 | Season: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2006 | Tags: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
IN LUST WE TRUST: 8MM FILMS BY THE KUCHAR BROTHERS
Friday 31 March 2006, at 6:30pm
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival at BFI Southbank
KUCHAR BROTHERS: PROGRAMME ONE
George Kuchar, Sylvia’s Promise, USA, 1962, 9 min
Love comes in all sizes. But the bonds of love extract a terrible price to be paid in flesh.
Mike Kuchar, Born of the Wind, USA, 1962, 24 min
‘A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls for the mummy he restored to life. 2,000 years as a mummy couldn’t quench her thirst for love!’ GK
George Kuchar, The Thief and the Stripper, USA, 1959, 25 min
An unlikely ménage à trois, doomed to end in a tornado of wanton violence.
George Kuchar, A Town Called Tempest, USA, 1963, 33 min
‘What happened that afternoon that left a town in shambles, its people in search of God?’ GK
PROGRAMME NOTES
IN LUST WE TRUST: 8MM FILMS BY THE KUCHAR BROTHERS
PROGRAMME 1
Friday 31 March 2006, at 6:30pm
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival at BFI Southbank
SYLVIA’S PROMISE
George Kuchar, USA, 1962, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, 9 min
‘Love comes in all sizes. But the bonds of love extract a terrible price to be paid in flesh. A vow weighs heavily on the heart. Sylvia makes a promise but can she keep it ?’ (George Kuchar)
BORN OF THE WIND
Mike Kuchar, USA, 1962, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, 24 min
Donna Kerness and Bob Cowan, whose torrid off-screen romance caused a sensation in the steam room of the St. George Hotel, are teamed for the first time in this poignant film of shriveled beauty and bloodless vengeance. Mr. Cowan is a striking performer resembling a vulture with shoestrings on its head. He and the buxom Miss Kerness battle front and center in the biggest clash of the hams since Godzilla and King Kong, and it’s one of the mysteries of gravity that Kerness doesn’t flop on her face, she being so top-heavy.
‘A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life … 2,000 years as a mummy couldn’t quench her thirst for love!’ (George Kuchar)
THE THIEF AND THE STRIPPER
George Kuchar, USA, 1959, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, 25 min
Three years to complete … It dares to lay bare the naked carcass of a generation gone mad with moral decay. Starring Tony Reynolds and Candy Newman in the film that got them married!
‘An early film, depicting today’s youth … raw and brutal.’ (George Kuchar)
A TOWN CALLED TEMPEST
George Kuchar, USA, 1963, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, 33 min
Rarely has the cinema equaled such spectacle! Seldom have movies probed so deeply in the rotten core of hypocrisy and weakness! Only the talents of Larry Leibowitz and Zelda Kaiser, his cousin from Hawaii, could make this tale of hatred and fanaticism come alive from the screen and hit you in the face with truth.
‘What happened that afternoon that left a town in shambles, its people in search of God?’ (George Kuchar)
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