By George

by maxgoldb

george kuchar reader

Jean-Pierre Gorin showed slides of Walter Benjamin and the Kuchar brothers as children during a lecture on the Dziga Vertov Group a couple of weeks ago at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He also referred to George Kuchar’s “blessed simplicity” as a kind of American ideal…

I’m still trying to make sense of the comparison, but in the meantime my piece on the recently published George Kuchar Reader ran in this week’s Guardian. The book will be celebrated next week with screenings at the Exploratorium and YBCA.