Curt McDowell

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Curt McDowell

Directing January 9, 1945

Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Curt McDowell worked in San Francisco from the late 1960s until his death in 1987 – a period that witnessed the Summer of Love, gay liberation, and the onset of HIV/AIDS, to which…

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Thundercrack!

Thundercrack!

6.3 1975 Movie
It Came from Kuchar

It Came from Kuchar

7.3 2009 Movie
Riverbody

Riverbody

10.0 1970 Movie
The Mongreloid

The Mongreloid

6.3 1978 Movie
Naughty Words

Naughty Words

4.8 1974 Movie
A Reason to Live

A Reason to Live

6.4 1976 Movie
Confessions

Confessions

5.8 1972 Movie
Taboo: The Single and the LP

Taboo: The Single and the LP

5.4 1980 Movie
Sparkle's Tavern

Sparkle's Tavern

6.4 1985 Movie
The Devil's Cleavage

The Devil's Cleavage

5.9 1975 Movie
Peed Into the Wind

Peed Into the Wind

3.0 1972 Movie
Symphony for a Sinner

Symphony for a Sinner

7.4 1978 Movie

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Curt McDowell worked in San Francisco from the late 1960s until his death in 1987 – a period that witnessed the Summer of Love, gay liberation, and the onset of HIV/AIDS, to which he succumbed at the age of forty-two. The author of numerous films that recast the American dream of plenty in pansexual terms, McDowell, like so many artists of his generation, indulged in the era’s carnal abundance, and his appetites and experiences are reflected in his work, which alternates between the revealing and the puerile.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2009
    It Came from Kuchar

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 1992
    Flesh Histories

    Movie Director

  3. 1987
    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

    Movie

  4. 1986
    Xmas 1986

    Movie Himself

  5. 1985
    Sparkle's Tavern

    Movie Director

  6. 1984
    Little Showoffs

    Movie Himself - Interviewer (as Roger Halcyon)

  7. 1983
    Audience

    Movie Self

  8. 1983
    George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

    Movie Himself

  9. 1980
    Loads

    Movie

  10. 1980
    Taboo: The Single and the LP

    Movie Music

  11. 1978
    The Mongreloid

    Movie Himself

  12. 1978
    Symphony for a Sinner

    Movie

  13. 1976
    A Reason to Live

    Movie

  14. 1975
    Thundercrack!

    Movie Medusa / Gerald Hammond

  15. 1975
    The Devil's Cleavage

    Movie Frank

  16. 1974
    Naughty Words

    Movie

More credits
  1. 1974
    Nudes: A Sketchbook

    Movie Screenplay

  2. 1974
    Stinky-Butt

    Movie

  3. 1974
    True Blue and Dreamy

    Movie Director

  4. 1974
    A Night with Gilda Peck

    Movie Director

  5. 1974
    Beaver Fever

    Movie Director

  6. 1974
    Fly Me to the Moon

    Movie Director

  7. 1974
    Edwina Marlow

    Movie Director

  8. 1974
    I Suck Your Flesh

    Movie Director

  9. 1973
    Resurrection of Eve

    Movie

  10. 1973
    Boggy Depot

    Movie Mean Brother

  11. 1973
    Dora Myrtle

    Movie

  12. 1973
    Nozy Tozy

    Movie Director

  13. 1973
    The Mean Brothers "Get Stood Up"

    Movie Mean Brother

  14. 1972
    Lunch

    Movie Director

  15. 1972
    Wieners and Buns Musical

    Movie Mugsy

  16. 1972
    Confessions

    Movie

  17. 1972
    Peed Into the Wind

    Movie Mick Terrific

  18. 1972
    Tasteless Trilogy

    Movie

  19. 1972
    Ronnie

    Movie Director

  20. 1972
    Siamese Twin Pinheads

    Movie

  21. 1972
    Truth for Ruth

    Movie

  22. 1972
    The Siamese Twin Pinheads

    Movie Director

  23. 1970
    Riverbody

    Movie

  24. 1970
    Pornogra Follies

    Movie