The Tower of the Astro Cyclops


Chicago Filmmakers

One of the most prolific media artist around, San Francisco?s George Kuchar brings you a torrid collection of new works, including the Tower of the Astro Cyclops (1993, 18 min) which is ?an autumn excursion into the reclusive retreat of a French scientist and author who probes a multi leveled universe

6/16/1998 – 6/16/1998
7:30pm

One of the most prolific media artist around, San Francisco?s George Kuchar brings you a torrid collection of new works, including the Tower of the Astro Cyclops (1993, 18 min) which is ?an autumn excursion into the reclusive retreat of a French scientist and author who probes a multi leveled universe of the fantastic and the forbidden in an edifice of cyclopean precision.? (G.K.) In Andy?s House of Gary (1993, 14 min) ?beans are spilled and pot stickers are consumed in a spirit of alcoholic altruism.? And Id Came From Inner Space (1993, 56 min) is a psycho-romantic thriller depicting the psychic upheavals of UFO abductees as they are hypnotically regressed by sexually disturbed hypnotherapist as ?performed by enrollees of the San Francisco Art Institute under the direction of Professor George Kuchar in Studio 8. (G.K.)

Director

George Kuchar

Production

Chicago Filmmakers