Title: Xmas 1986
Authors: George, Kuchar, 1942-2011,; George Kuchar Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Year: 1986
Subjects: Kuchar, George,; Christmas.; Restaurants California San Francisco.; Holidays United States; Camera operators.; Christmas sounds.; California; San Francisco (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.