Mike Kuchar
Born: 1942-08-31 in New York, New York
Known For: Directing
Biography
Mike Kuchar, cinematographer, painter and writer and brother of George Kuchar, was born in New York City. He began making 8mm movies in the 1950's, switching over to 16mm film production in 1960, and continues now, producing short motion pictures in the video and digital formats. Mike and George Kuchar were the co-recipients of the "Vanguard Director Award" at the 11th CineVegas Film Festival, 2009, and the 2009 "Frameline Award" at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. "Film purists," says Mike, "tend to snub the digital medium — but as far as I'm concerned, if it allows the image to move and make noise, I'll gladly use it... and the format fits perfectly into my budgets too!" Mike Kuchar is a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow for his work in film and video.
Filmography
2024
- Kuchar-esque ... (Writer)
2023
- My Morning with Magic Mike as Self
- The Voice in the Man ... (Director)
2022
- Sunlit Sorcery ... (Director)
2019
- Sunkissed ... (Director)
- Inward Bound ... (Director)
- Celestial Horizons ... (Director)
- Pathways ... (Director)
- Him in the Night ... (Director)
2018
- Street Meat ... (Director)
- Flesh and the Stars ... (Director)
- The Season of Shadows and Flame ... (Director)
2017
- NightScape ... (Director)
- SoulSurfers ... (Director)
- Broken Gods ... (Director)
- Oh Hi Anne as Himself
- Soul Catcher ... (Director)
- Moon Lit Vows ... (Director)
- Keeper of Secrets ... (Director)
- Meat with Bones ... (Director)
2016
- Abstracted ... (Director)
- Five O'Clock Shadows ... (Director)
- Dark Night of the Soul ... (Director)
2015
- Angels We ... (Director)
- Museum of Damaged Art ... (Director)
- A Rented Space ... (Director)
- Age of Anxiety ... (Director)
- Wrestling with Angels ... (Director)
- The Breeze and Him ... (Director)
- Boy in the Mirror ... (Director)
2014
- Soul Searchers ... (Director)
- Summer Sins ... (Director)
- Blue Vibrations ... (Director)
- Chromatic Effusion ... (Director)
- Rat Nest ... (Director)
- Chasing Shadows ... (Director)
- Dreamsville ... (Director)
- Adam’s Apple ... (Director)
- Lost Blues ... (Director)
- Coffee, Tea and Wizardry ... (Director)
2013
- Ascension ... (Director)
- Fallen Angels ... (Director)
- SoulMates ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
- The Dragon’s Son ... (Director)
- Devil’s Den ... (Director)
2012
- Tickled Pink ... (Director)
- Disordered ... (Director)
- Meltdown ... (Director)
- Starbound ... (Director)
2011
- Litany of the Seven Kisses ... (Director)
- The Stone Boy ... (Director)
- Splatter Movie ... (Director)
- Free Form Frolic ... (Director)
2010
- Medusa’s Gaze ... (Director)
- Opal Essence ... (Director)
- Snow Beard
- Echo’s Garden ... (Director)
- Debbie and the Demons ... (Director)
- The Dreamer’s Tale ... (Director)
2009
- Ephemeral Seizure ... (Director)
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
- Animal ... (Director)
- Swan Song ... (Director)
- Idyll ... (Director)
- Bedeviled ... (Director)
- Dumped! ... (Director)
- The Tiger ... (Director)
- Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales ... (Director)
- The Unmentionables
2008
- Witchery ... (Director)
- Song of the Seven Senses ... (Director)
- Peek-A-Boo ... (Director)
- The Vernal Zone ... (Director)
- A Brief Summer’s Tale ... (Director)
- The Faery Garden ... (Director)
- A Midsummer's Nightmare ... (Director)
- A Dream of Roses ... (Director)
2007
- 365 Day Project as Self
- Incantation ... (Director)
- Scarlet Petals ... (Director)
- Vortex ... (Director)
- Paradise Gone ... (Director)
- State of Mind ... (Director)
- Fruit of the Serpent ... (Director)
2006
- Midnight Mass ... (Director)
- Zoology ... (Director)
- Sweet Dreams ... (Director)
- Celestial Murmurs ... (Director)
- Meet The Kuchar Brothers
- Haunted ... (Director)
- A Poem for Summer ... (Director)
2005
- NightRise ... (Director)
- The Prayers of Cupie LaRue ... (Director)
- In the Garden of Eros ... (Director)
- BIRD IN THE SKY as Grandfather
- Atonement ... (Director)
- Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase ... (Director)
2004
- Romance ... (Director)
- Day Dreaming ... (Director)
- Bird, Bath and Beyond as Self
- Heaven Cannot Hold Them ... (Director)
2003
- Miss Philly’s Valentine ... (Director)
- Inspiration ... (Director)
2002
- Shepherd’s Poem ... (Director)
- Wind in My Sails ... (Director)
2000
- Divine Trash as Self
- Tryst ... (Director)
- Boy Toys ... (Director)
1998
- The Stranger in Apartment 9F ... (Director)
- Domain of the Pixel Pixies as Himself
1997
- On a Shore Beneath the Sky ... (Director)
- Purgatory Junction ... (Director)
- Candy Coated Evil ... (Director)
- A Widow's Web ... (Director)
1996
- Statue in the Park ... (Director)
- The Bristled Dagger ... (Director)
1995
- The Second Coming ... (Cinematography)
- An Evil Town
- Cupid’s Infirmary ... (Director)
- The Pictures of Dorian Gray ... (Director)
1994
- Blue Banshee ... (Director)
- Urchins of Ungawa
1992
- Award as Himself
1990
- Life Is Like a Cucumber ... (Cinematography)
- Kiss Napoleon Goodbye ... (Cinematography)
- Silence = Death ... (Director of Photography)
- Positive ... (Director of Photography)
1987
1986
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Tone Poem ... (Director)
- Seascape ... (Director)
- Fable for a New Age ... (Director)
1983
- George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground as Himself
1978
- Cinématon as N°1085
1977
- George and Mike Kuchar as Self
1976
- Seadrift
- The Shadow Glass
- Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults ... (Director)
1975
- Magicman
- The Devil's Cleavage ... (Cinematography)
- Bloodsucker ... (Director)
- Fur of the Field ... (Director)
1972
- Peed Into the Wind
- Didgeridoo ... (Director)
- Faraway Places ... (Director)
1971
1970
- Abode of the Snows ... (Director)
- Tales of the Bronx ... (Director)
1969
1968
- The Mammal Palace
- Underground New York as Self
- Variations ... (Director)
1967
- The Unclean as Himself
- The Craven Sluck ... (Director)
- Fragments ... (Director)
- Color Me Shameless
1966
- The Secret of Wendel Samson as Wendel Samson (voice)
- Galaxie as Self
- Green Desire ... (Director)
- River Windows
1965
- Corruption of the Damned
- Sins of the Fleshapoids ... (Director)
1964
- Lust for Ecstasy
- Born of the Wind ... (Director)
1963
- Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof ... (Director)
- Confessions of Babette as Leonard
- Tootsies in Autumn ... (Director)
1962
- Night of the Bomb ... (Director)
- Sylvia’s Promise
1961
- A Reel of Home Movies ... (Director)
1960
- I Was a Teenage Rumpot ... (Director)
1959
- The Thief and the Stripper ... (Director)
1958
- The Slasher ... (Director)
1957
- The Naked and the Nude ... (Director)
1956
- A Tub Named Desire ... (Director)