{"id":3345,"date":"2002-12-18T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2002-12-18T19:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:00:40","slug":"george-kuchar-christmas-cracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2002\/12\/18\/george-kuchar-christmas-cracker\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kuchar&#8217;s Christmas Cracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>GEORGE KUCHAR&#8217;S CHRISTMAS CRACKER<br \/>\nWednesday 18 December 2002, at 7:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> London The Photographers&#8217; Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the season of good cheer with George, as he serves up a smorgasbord of Yuletide yearning. Since 1986, Kuchar has produced over 300 tapes; each infused with heaps of humour and piles of pathos. This selection of his annual Christmas videos will warm our winter wonderland. Happy holidays!<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Kuchar, Holiday Xmas Video of 1991, USA, 1991, colour, sound, 20 min<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>George Kuchar, Xmas 1987 (New Year\u2019s), USA, 1987, colour, sound, 13 min<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>George Kuchar, Dingleberry Jingles, USA, 1994, colour, sound, 21 min<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>George Kuchar, Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness, USA, 1989, colour, sound, 11 min<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>George Kuchar, Kingdom by the Sea, USA, 2002, colour, sound, 20 min<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmid the greenery of what should be a White Christmas there sits the blackness close to my heart, and beyond that there bellows a legion of behemoths who know not shame nor guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA veneer of good cheer coats the surface like thin ice, so proceed with caution!\u201d (George Kuchar)<\/p>\n<p>With plentiful seasonal gratitude to Steve Reinke and Abina Manning. Please bring festive treats to share with fellow audience members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infinite-projection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}