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.

Known For

The Devil's Cleavage
The Devil's Cleavage
Pornogra Follies
Pornogra Follies
Stinky-Butt
Stinky-Butt
Dora Myrtle
Dora Myrtle
Naughty Words
Naughty Words
Symphony for a Sinner
Symphony for a Sinner
Riverbody
Riverbody
The Mongreloid
The Mongreloid

Filmography

2009 It Came from Kuchar
as Self (archive footage)
1987 Video Album 5: The Thursday People
as
1986 Xmas 1986
as Himself
1984 Little Showoffs
as Himself - Interviewer (as Roger Halcyon)
1983 George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
as Himself
1982 Audience
as Self
1980 Loads
as
1978 Symphony for a Sinner
as
1978 The Mongreloid
as Himself
1976 A Reason to Live
as
1975 Thundercrack!
as Medusa / Gerald Hammond (as Pamela Primate)
1975 The Devil's Cleavage
as Frank
1974 Naughty Words
as
1974 Naughty Words
as Himself (Voice)
1974 Stinky-Butt
as
1973 Resurrection of Eve
as
1973 Dora Myrtle
as
1973 The Mean Brothers "Get Stood Up"
as Mean Brother
1973 Boggy Depot
as Mean Brother
1972 Wieners and Buns Musical
as Mugsy