Monday, October 30, 2017

Mike Kuchar, Pugratory Junction (1997)


A lovely underground video from 1997. A 40 minute camp melodrama by Mike Kuchar starring Donna Kerness, best known from Kuchar's "The Craven Sluck" and glam-punk rocker Kembra Pfahler. A mother and daughter compete over men and for their place in the world of exploitation film. Quite a bit of nudity, funny dialog. There's murder, sex, corporal punishment. A brilliant movie. Filmed in New York.

Mike Kuchar and his late brother, George, always had a very innocent quality, which is strange since their movies tend to be somewhat dirty. 

Available here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg1E3jr8m2o&t=468s 

I've thought for some time that zero budget movies should top out at 40 minutes. If it won't be shown in a theater, there's probably little reason for it to drag on for an hour and a half. Shows that analog video can look pretty good. Shows the importance of music. Most of the conversations are dialog between two characters. 

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