The Craven Sluck

As with much of his other work -- and 1960s New York underground film in general -- Mike Kuchar's The Craven Sluck relies on the juxtaposition of disparate pop-cultural modes to question convention, provoke laughs and restore personal vision to the filmmaking process. Part kitchen-sink melodrama, part sci-fi farce and completely tongue-in-cheek, the film packs a lot of ideas and images into 20 minutes. (Surreal Moviez)