This documentary is a well-deserved tribute to legendary experimental filmmakers George and Mike Kuchar, the Bronx-born twins who spent five decades pioneering underground filmmaking. Their campy, zero-budget parodies—an homage to Douglas Sirk melodramas laced with a healthy dose of Ed Wood’s aesthetic—influenced multitudes of directors from Guy Maddin and David Lynch to John Waters, who called them his first inspiration: “These were the pivotal films of my youth, bigger influences than Warhol, Kenneth Anger, even The Wizard of Oz.” 2009, video, 86 minutes.
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Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966, 16mm, 17 minutes) and the locally made Curse of the Kurva (1990, video, 16 minutes), both directed by George Kuchar.