Melodrama/Melodiary

press release: Mills Folly Microcinema at Arts + Literature Laboratory

What: Melodrama / Melodiary: Three Videos by George Kuchar

When: Thursday, January 31, 7:30 pm.  

Where: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 2021 Winnebago Street

Admission: $5.  Doors open at 7:15, limited seating.

Underground filmmaker and video artist George Kuchar (1942-2011) produced hundreds of personal diaries and portraits, including his Weather Diary series starting in 1986. This screening is inspired by the thirtieth anniversary of Kuchar's short diary video, 500 Milibars to Ecstasy, which was completed in 1989 shortly after his campus visit and screenings at the UW-Madison. Other titles screened will include Weather Diary 3 (1988) and a melodrama shot with his students at the Art Institute of San Francisco, Calling Dr. Petrov (1986).