Preceded by Short Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar, USA, 1966): Starting at age 13, George and Mike Kuchar created Hollywood home-movies that fused kitsch with kitchen sink, melodrama with masochism, film noir with fuchsia. This steamy drama of sex, love, and loneliness stars George Kuchar himself as the tortured hero. The humor and sadness of the film come from a deft counterpointing of unattainable Hollywood glamor with unbearable reality. Also with Donna Kerness, Hope Morris, Steve Packard. (15 mins, Color, 16mm, From PFA Collection) The first soft-core sexploitation filmmaker to be honored at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Russ Meyer has been called a "blue-collar surrealist" by L.A. Times critic Kevin Thomas, who also asserts that Meyer used "a camera as expressively and rigorously as Hitchcock or Antonioni." Meyer makes larger-than-life what Hollywood peddled more softly: adolescent sexual fantasy. Shiny and glossy, his films are like comic-book art raised to high pop art; indeed, he is often compared to the painter Roy Lichtenstein. Meyer's films are "extremely stylized evocations of a sex-violence-death-car-bosom culture. The settings are rural and suburban U.S.A. The characters are archetypal." (Michael Stern, N.Y. Cultural Center) In Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill!, a witty salute to Aeschylus, Meyer pits three furies disguised as go-go dancers against various unsuspecting mortals. Their ultimate goal: the total subjugation and destruction of the male of the species.