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ARTSpeak: Andy Ditzler’s Film Love Pays Tribute to George Kuchar

Written By Steve Albertson on February 21, 2012 in ARTSpeak on AM1690, Film

Donna Kerness in Hold Me While I'm Naked (1965), directed by George Kuchar. Image courtesy Film Love.

Radio Version: Click the player above to listen to today’s broadcast on AM1690 (6.5 minutes), or click here to download the MP3.

Bonus! Click the player above for the web-only “director’s cut” (27 minutes), which explores the role of sexuality, queer identity, and early influences including Andy Warhol and other filmmakers, or click here to download the MP3.

Episode 46: Andy Ditzler explains some background for the next installment of his acclaimed Film Love series, A Tribute to George Kuchar, curated in honor of the beloved filmmaker who passed away last year. The film screenings run for one night at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center 8-9:30PM, Friday, February 24, 2012.

George Kuchar, K Mart Self Portrait (date unknown), courtesy Ada Gallery and George Kuchar.

George Kuchar in Hold Me While I'm Naked (1965). Image courtesy Film Love.


Special thanks to AM1690, The Voice of the Arts, our partners in producing ARTSpeak with BURNAWAY. The radio program broadcasts over the airwaves every Tuesday in two rotations, 8-8:30AM and 6-6:30PM.


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  • Jeremy Abernathy

    Article by a film curator for the Whitney biennial in Artforum
    http://artforum.com/inprint/id=30067

    although you have register to read it, unfortunately. Partly an obituary, and it covers many of the same details Andy mentioned in the interview, but it adds a little more about Kuchar’s return to popularity and his rise in the eyes of the art world.

    Thought you all might be interested.