Curt McDowell

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Thundercrack! (1975) — Director
2. Confessions (1972) — Director
3. Loads (1980) — Director
4. Sparkle's Tavern (1985) — Director
5. Taboo: The Single and the LP (1980) — Director
6. Lunch (1972) — Director
7. Little Showoffs (1984) — Director
8. Siamese Twin Pinheads (1972) — Director
9. Naughty Words (1974) — Director
10. Stinky-Butt (1974) — Director
11. Boggy Depot (1973) — Director
12. Nudes: A Sketchbook (1974) — Director
13. Pornogra Follies (1970) — Director
14. Ronnie (1972) — Director
15. Peed Into the Wind (1972) — Director
16. True Blue and Dreamy (1974) — Director
17. Beaver Fever (1974) — Director
18. A Night with Gilda Peck (1974) — Director
19. A Visit to Indiana (1970) — Director
20. Wieners and Buns Musical (1972) — Director
21. Dora Myrtle (1973) — Director
22. Truth for Ruth (1972) — Director
23. Fly Me to the Moon (1974) — Director
24. Nozy Tozy (1973) — Director
25. The Mean Brothers "Get Stood Up" (1973) — Director
26. The Siamese Twin Pinheads (1972) — Director
27. Flesh Histories (1992) — Director
28. Tasteless Trilogy (1972) — Director
29. Fried Egg and Sadder Duck (1970) — Director
30. He Doesn't Carrot All (1970) — Director
31. I Suck Your Flesh (1974) — Director
32. Edwina Marlow (1974) — Director
33. The Bag Film — Director

Also appeared in

1. Thundercrack! (1975) — Medusa / Gerald Hammond
2. The Mongreloid (1978) — Himself
3. It Came from Kuchar (2009) — Self (archive footage)
4. Resurrection of Eve (1973)
5. A Reason to Live (1976)
6. Confessions (1972)
7. The Devil's Cleavage (1975) — Frank
8. Loads (1980)
9. Symphony for a Sinner (1978)
10. George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground (1983) — Himself
11. Little Showoffs (1984) — Himself - Interviewer (as Roger Halcyon)
12. Audience (1983) — Self
13. Stinky-Butt (1974)
14. Pornogra Follies (1970)
15. Naughty Words (1974)
16. Siamese Twin Pinheads (1972)
17. Peed Into the Wind (1972) — Mick Terrific
18. Boggy Depot (1973) — Mean Brother
19. Dora Myrtle (1973)
20. Wieners and Buns Musical (1972) — Mugsy
21. A Visit to Indiana (1970)
22. Truth for Ruth (1972)
23. Fly Me to the Moon (1974) — Director
24. Riverbody (1970)
25. The Mean Brothers "Get Stood Up" (1973) — Mean Brother
26. Video Album 5: The Thursday People (1987)
27. Xmas 1986 (1986) — Himself
28. Tasteless Trilogy (1972)