“Cattle Mutilations”
by: George Kuchar
Against the background of a grisly mystery, four people face a growing
sense of panic and uncleanliness. Part documentary, part “cartoon,”
part B-movie. The film asks questions to where there don’t seem to be
any clear-cut answers.
1983, 16mm color/so
TRT:25min
In the eighties George starts working with Video aswell
His most well knowed videoworks should be the Weather Diaries. Either ways this video if a good example of what he does. It's quite different from his filmworks.ST: To jump ahead to the present time...when did you start working in video?
GK: It was 84 or 85.
ST: Why did you make the move, other than the inexpensiveness of the medium?
GK: Well, I always liked being independent and working at home and not having to rely on too many things or places. So, working on video came out of the fact that you buy the material to shoot on, you put it in the camera, and you do everything right there in the camera.
ST: Some of your first videos were shot and edited entirely in camera and are quite brilliant, considering there was no post-production.
GK: Well, I enjoy working with it that way, and that made it totally independent. You don’t have to go to the lab all the time and deal with all the people. Although they are nice people and it does get you out of the house. You can do the whole thing right there for not only so cheap, but done right in the machine...that’s what turned me on! Also the idea that you don’t get hooked onto a single instrument to make a picture because your career seems to be based on one tool and if that tool breaks down or goes obsolete, you can’t continue any more. So when I bought another camera, it had other features and I decided after so many years, you don’t want to do the same things...it gets to be too repetitious and the material looks dead. I’ve gotten other decks over the years to edit and a machine where you can actually have fun making a collage, or fixing images and moving them around, so that’s another thing to keep you going. I enjoy that process, and staying home enabled me to do stuff and not have these strange anxieties about having to be out of the house for 12 hours or to stay out for 24 hours to edit!
http://www.eurounderground.org/filmmaker/kuchar.htm
excerpt from the interview were George speaks of his beggining in video works
I haven't find relevant information regarding it, it's a quite recent work from 1992.
The Cage of Nicholas
The.Cage.of.Nicholas.(George.Kuchar,.1992)(fitz).avi 
The.Cattle.Mutilations.(George.Kuchar,.1983)(fitz).avi 
