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George Kuchar is an American film director, known for his "low-fi" ethic, playful use of no-talent actors, plotless plots, and themeless themes. He was born in New York City in 1942. Trained as a commercial artist in a vocational high school, he drew weather maps for a local news show. During this period he and his twin brother Michael were making 8mm movies which were showcased in the then-burgeoning underground scene alongside films by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger and Stan Brakhage. After being laid off from a commercial art job, Kuchar was offered a teaching job in the film department of the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has taught since the early 1970s. It was in San Francisco that he became involved with underground comics via his neighbor, Art Spiegelman, and Bill Griffith. They both wound up in his movies and George wound up in their publications.

Films

George Kuchar has directed over 200 films, many of them short films by students in his courses at San Francisco Art Institute. Some of his better known works include:

Hold Me While Im Naked
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof

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