Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool
暫譯: 電影污水中的反思

Kuchar, George, Kuchar, Mike, Waters, John

Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool
  • 出版商: Inpatient Press
  • 出版日期: 2025-11-18
  • 售價: $880
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $836
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 208
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 196587424X
  • ISBN-13: 9781965874240

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商品描述

A rollicking picaresque memoir on moviemaking from the titans of underground trash cinema.

In the grimy underbelly of underground cinema, the Kuchar brothers have long been the mad prophets of experimental filmmaking. Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool is a raucous, unfiltered journey through the minds of two artists who transformed trash into transcendent art.

From the fever dreams of their early New York experiments to the psychotronic landscapes of their San Francisco period, George and Mike Kuchar consistently defied every convention of filmmaking. This is not just a memoir--it's a manifesto. With raw, unapologetic prose, they dissect their revolutionary and idiosyncratic approach to cinema, revealing the passionate madness behind films that have challenged, shocked, and inspired generations of underground artists.

John Waters sets the stage with an introduction celebrating the Kuchars' uncompromising vision. Here are the stories behind legendary works like Sins of the Fleshapoids, Hold Me While I'm Naked, and The Devil's Cleavage--films that exist at the intersection of camp, avant-garde, and pure cinematic rebellion.

Irreverent, hilarious, and deeply personal, Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool is more than a book. It's a backstage pass to the most gloriously deranged minds in independent film history.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一部關於電影製作的狂野流浪者回憶錄，來自地下垃圾電影的巨擘。

在地下電影的骯髒底層，庫查兄弟長期以來一直是實驗電影的瘋狂先知。來自電影污水池的反思 是一段喧鬧、未經過濾的旅程，深入兩位藝術家的心靈，他們將垃圾轉化為超越的藝術。

從他們早期在紐約的實驗中的狂熱夢境，到舊金山時期的精神迷幻景觀，喬治和邁克·庫查始終挑戰電影製作的每一個慣例。這不僅僅是一本回憶錄——這是一份宣言。他們以生動、毫不道歉的文筆剖析他們革命性和特立獨行的電影方法，揭示了那些挑戰、震驚並啟發了幾代地下藝術家的電影背後的熱情瘋狂。

約翰·沃特斯在序言中為庫查兄弟不妥協的視野慶祝，奠定了基調。這裡是傳奇作品背後的故事，如肉體的罪惡、在我裸體時抱著我和魔鬼的胸懷——這些電影存在於營地、前衛和純粹電影叛逆的交匯處。

不敬、搞笑且深具個人色彩的來自電影污水池的反思不僅僅是一本書。它是通往獨立電影史上最光榮瘋狂心靈的後台通行證。

作者簡介

Mike Kuchar has been a major influential figure in the underground film and comics scenes since the 1960s, first in his hometown of the Bronx and, from the 1970s on, in the creative hotbed of San Francisco. Together with his twin brother George, the Kuchars gained cult recognition for their over-the-top, no-budget films that sent up Hollywood epics, weepy romances, and sci-fi B movies, developing a distinctive style that jettisoned traditional narrative structure and acting professionalism in favor of extravagant, tender sagas that would have a significant impact on emerging theorizations and expressions of camp as an artistic sensibility.

George Kuchar was born in New York City in 1942 along with twin brother Mike. At an early age they made 8mm films and later attended the High School of Industrial Art in N.Y.C. (which is now the High School of Art and Design). Employed in the world of commercial art in Manhattan, George Kuchar was later laid off from work and never went back to that snake-pit; instead, he embarked on a fulltime movie career. Having been introduced to the avant-garde film scene in the early 1960s, he acquired an audience for his low-budget dramas and was hired by the San Francisco Art Institute to teach filmmaking. In 1985 he began making 8mm video diaries and has completed about 50 works in that medium. George died in 2011.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

麥克·庫查（Mike Kuchar）自1960年代以來一直是地下電影和漫畫界的重要影響人物，最初在他的家鄉布朗克斯，從1970年代起則在創意熱土舊金山。與他的雙胞胎兄弟喬治·庫查（George Kuchar）一起，庫查兄弟因其誇張、無預算的電影而獲得了邪典認可，這些電影諷刺好萊塢史詩、感人的浪漫故事和科幻B級片，發展出一種獨特的風格，拋棄了傳統的敘事結構和演技專業性，轉而追求奢華而溫柔的故事，對新興的藝術感性——營地（camp）的理論化和表達產生了重大影響。

喬治·庫查於1942年在紐約市出生，與雙胞胎兄弟麥克一起。年輕時，他們拍攝了8毫米的電影，後來就讀於紐約市的工業藝術高中（現在稱為藝術與設計高中）。喬治·庫查在曼哈頓的商業藝術界工作，後來被裁員，並再也沒有回到那個充滿競爭的環境；相反，他開始了全職的電影生涯。在1960年代初，他接觸到前衛電影界，為他的低預算戲劇獲得了觀眾，並被舊金山藝術學院聘請教授電影製作。1985年，他開始製作8毫米的視頻日記，並在該媒介中完成了約50部作品。喬治於2011年去世。

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