Mike Kuchar, George Kuchar
Sins of the Fleshapoids
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Original format 16mm
Year 1966
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Mike Kuchar
Subtitles French
Booklet 16 pages (French, English)
Running time 197 min
Films
SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS (1965) 43'
THE SECRET OF WENDEL SAMSON (1966) 33'
THE CRAVEN SLUCK (1967) 20'
Description
Along with Anger's Scorpio Rising and Warhol's Chelsea Girls, Mike Kuchar's Sins of the Fleshapoids remains one of the most influential films of the American Underground of the 1960s. Mike and his brother George (who co-wrote Fleshapoids) were the godfathers of low-rent cinema, pioneers of a hilarious, campy, and obscene style somewhere between Ed Wood exploitation and Douglas Sirk melodrama. The story takes place one million years in the future, after the "Great War" has ravaged the planet, and humanity has abandoned science to indulge in all the carnal pleasures offered by art, food, and lust. Labor is left to a race of enslaved androids. A rebellious male robot (Bob Cowan) grows weary of pampering his lazy masters and joins humans in sin. The future has never looked so ridiculous...
"...a living legend in the world of experimental cinema."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"The films of George and Mike Kuchar were my first source of inspiration. George's Hold Me While I'm Naked, Mike's Sins Of the Fleshapoids—these films were the pivots of my youth, more important influences than Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and even The Wizard of Oz."
— John Waters