GEORGE KUCHAR / George Kuchar (underground film genius)

George Kuchar, interviews and conversations edited by V.Vale
George Kuchar (underground film genius), 2013
Softcover, 124 pages 
10 x 15 cm
RE/Search Publications 

In this book of witty, illuminating interviews with V. Vale, San Francisco Art Institute teacher (mentor to many filmmakers, including Christopher Coppola) George Kuchar shares his secrets of how to make a film for close to zero-budget.

PLUS interview with Kuchar star Marion Eaton, lists, and conversations.

George Kuchar is an inventor of low-budget filmmaking, using thrift-store props, costumes and cheap make-up to transform non-professional actors into sex symbols and louche legends. In this book he reveals the secrets of LIGHTING: the key to making an ordinary human into a god or goddess. He does NOT reveal one of his major secret weapons: that he found countless lesser-known and just plain unknown vinyl records and plundered them to create spectacular, mood-enhancing soundtracks supplying drama, melancholy and passion where none hitherto existed. Buy this book and you may become a filmmaker yourself!

—Jacob Cruikshank, Film Thread