George Kuchar

"There's a lot of things in life worth living for. Isn't there?"
George Kuchar is an underground filmmaker from Manhattan, NY.  He and his brother Mike Kuchar began making films together when they were pre-teens. They soon became central to the underground, avant-garde film scene, screening work alongside Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage.  Kuchar has tought film at The San Francisco Art Institute since the early seventies and most people in this city have never heard his name.  He was good friends with legendary underground filmmaker John Waters.  Here is the final scene from his 17 min short  film Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966).

Trust me this dude is a factor in the game.  But don't expect a linear plot or nothin.  Kuchar is famous for rollin with the punches and allowing the process of production take over the movie.  For example the really fly actress in the scene above, Donna Kernes got sick from all the shower scenes in the movie and had to quit, so Kuchar rewrote the script to be about an actress walking of the set off a movie because she didn't want to do all the erotic shower scenes. Kuchar dubbed all of Kernes dialog.