Love Tapes Series 18 and Weather Diary 5

Love Tapes Series 18 and Weather Diary 5

feminist, video, woman filmmaker; gay, video art, sexuality, experimental, community-based, diary

EAI

1981; 1989

A collection of video recordings of 2,500 people from diverse backgrounds who share their personal feelings about love. Love, as described throughout the tapes, is not defined by any one singular meaning, but is instead contextualized by the variety of personal perspectives and experiences within this collection. Such interpretations of love explore lust, friendship, first love, and familial love. This selection consists of 32 edited tapes from 1978-2011. The Love Tapes project began in 1977 and is ongoing. -- VDB

Love Tapes: Series 18 includes excerpts from the extensive Love Tapes series. Representing a cross-section of contemporary American culture — from prison inmates and disabled veterans to lovesick adolescents — the participants' anecdotes and confessionals reveal an eclectic range of personalities and psychologies. Love Tapes are personal, cathartic statements that illustrate the video camera's role as mirror, witness and voyeur — a vehicle for direct confrontation with the self. --EAI

the feature-length first entry in George Kuchar’s monumental Weather Diary series, which eventually spanned six parts and a slew of related supplementary works. Like much of Kuchar’s diaristic work, Weather Diary 1 is an utterly characteristic and deeply entertaining mix of the observational, the naked, the poetic, the uncomfortable, and the hilarious. Shot almost entirely in camera on Kuchar’s visit to Oklahoma in search of dramatic weather phenomenon, the video ultimately functions as a probing, idiosyncratic document of the humor, morbidity, and humanity of a “Bronx boy’s friendly, if somewhat freaky, foray into Americana”. --Los Angeles Film Forum

George Kuchar was a legendary figure in the underground film scene. Raw and often outrageous, his low-tech video diaries chronicle an ongoing personal history. Kuchar's eccentric presence pervades these "home videos," which veer from the scatological to the sublime as they observe the banality and intimacy of the everyday. With perverse humor and melancholy, his video journals resonate with an unexpected poetry. --EAI

60 mins; 38 mins

Wendy Clarke/George Kucher

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