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I Was a Teenage Rumpot (1957) by George & Mike Kuchar

Saturday, November 27, 1982, 8:00 pm

The Films of Mike Kuchar

with Kuchar in person

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

800 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, CA, 94133

I was a Teenage Rumpot (1957), 8mm, sound-on-tape, 10 min.; Sins of the Fleshapoids (1966), 45 min., sound; Cycles (1968), 10 min.; Secret of Wendel Samson (1967), 30 min.; Isle of Sleeping Souls (1982), 20 min.

Program is representative of the various phases of M. Kuchar’s work from the 8mm Kodachrome, fleshy Bronx melodramas through the recent class films. Evident  throughout is his sensitive camera work, fluid editing, and a talent for giving improvised acting and effects of personal warmth and professional sheen.