Video Album 5 The Thursday People (1987)

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker Curt McDowelland the people and activities that came and went along with himare the themes that run through this existential diary of daily life McDowell was dying from AIDSrelated illnesses during the production of the diary An elegy for McDowell the videowork captures Kuchars mournful remembrances of his longlasting friendship with the young filmmaker But it also has the inquisitive charm perverse humor and quirky candor that places Kuchars visual expressions in a gritty niche all their own