4/7/2023 0 Comments Josman gay catoonsIn high school, the brothers studied commercial illustration at the School of Art and Design in Manhattan. As George remembered in their 1997 Reflections From a Cinematic Cesspool, a memoir-cum–manual for aspiring filmmakers: “On the screen there would always be a wonderful tapestry of big people and they seemed so wild and crazy….The women wantonly lifted up their skirts to adjust garter-belts and men in pin-striped suits appeared from behind shadowed décor to suck and chew on Technicolor lips.” For the Kuchars, as for gay male contemporaries like Andy Warhol and Jack Smith, the movie theater was a temple for erotics both expressed and repressed, projected and appropriated, homo and hetero, all whirled together on the silver screen. Sympathy for the devil: Mike Kuchar’s “Rescued!” (2017) Mike Kuchar/Anton Kern GalleryĪs boys growing up in the Bronx, Mike and his twin brother - the late, equally great film and video artist George (1942–2011) - loved to spend their weekends at the movies, watching everything from newsreels to B films to blockbusters, their young minds roused by all the thrills that Hollywood had to offer: romance, drama, action, science fiction, terror, suspense.
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