Films
Sins of the Fleshapoids
Director: Mike Kuchar
Starring: Bob Cowan, George Kuchar, Donna Kerness, Maren Thomas, Gina Zuckerman, Julius Middleman
Year: 1965
Runtime: 43 mins.
Synopsis: Set a million years in the future, after “The Great War” has scourged the planet, mankind has forsaken science for self-indulgence in all the carnal pleasures afforded by art, food, and lust. Work is left to a race of enslaved androids. One rebellious male robot (Bob Cowan) tires of pampering his lazy masters, and joins the humans in sin. The future never seemed so ridiculous… (from Other Cinema)
DVD: Other Cinema
Official Website: None
Underground Film Timeline: 1960 — 1969
Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
PopMatters (Mike Ward)
Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)
Video: Trailer
[...] the dialogue and sound effects being written out in word balloons like in Mike Kuchar’s Sins of the Fleshapoids; plus when Rocket John puts on his leather jacket it looks like the biker dudes suiting up in [...]
[...] turn than his brother — and, frankly, different than his own self. After solo directing Sins of the Fleshapoids in 1965, which is one of the most significant underground films ever made, Mike continued to make [...]
[...] Kenneth Anger released Scorpio Rising. 1965 and ’66 saw the release of Mike Kuchar‘s Sins of the Fleshapoids and Andy Warhol‘s Chelsea Girls. These five films can arguably be considered the most [...]
[...] my engagement with it was very limited. Luckily, I was able to see things like Scorpio Rising and Sins of the Fleshapoids and Meshes of the Afternoon on my own at the Dryden Theater at the George Eastman House. I always [...]