Title: Holiday harbor /
Authors: George, Kuchar, 1942-2011,; Art Institute of Chicago. Bank; George Kuchar Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Publisher: Video Data Bank,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Kuchar, George,; Bridges California San Francisco Bay; Ethnic restaurants.; Christmas.; Soft drinks; Fast food restaurants United States; Cooking, Chinese; Camera operators.; Restaurants California San Francisco.; Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.); San Francisco (Calif.); San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Abstract: George Kuchar was one of the most prolific American independent film and videomakers. With his homemade Super 8 and 16mm potboilers and melodramas of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’90s, he became legendary as a subversively outrageous underground filmmaker whose work influenced directors such as Andy Warhol, John Waters and David Lynch. After his transition to video, he remained a master of genre manipulation creating hundreds of hilarious and often diaristic videos with a camcorder and dime-store props, while using friends and students as actors. "There’s lots cooking in the city-by the-bay and the waters smell good too as the viewer sails off to Sausalito for home-made bread and gets an ocular whiff of oriental cuisine. The eyeball is treated to many tasty items as the Pacific itself churns like an overtaxed tummy in preparation for a blowout. There are Christmas lights and holiday fireworks and furry playmates being squeezed by the overstuffed. It’s all in good cheer and definitely good taste as the spinach pies flaunt their iron-packed punch to the gut and a bittersweet/hot & sour merriment stalks the salivating." George Kuchar