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)
- Him in the Night ... (Director)
- Pathways ... (Director)
- Celestial Horizons ... (Director)
- Inward Bound ... (Director)
2018
- Street Meat ... (Director)
- Flesh and the Stars ... (Director)
- The Season of Shadows and Flame ... (Director)
2017
- Oh Hi Anne as Himself
- Soul Catcher ... (Director)
- Keeper of Secrets ... (Director)
- Moon Lit Vows ... (Director)
- SoulSurfers ... (Director)
- Broken Gods ... (Director)
- NightScape ... (Director)
- Meat with Bones ... (Director)
2016
- Dark Night of the Soul ... (Director)
- Abstracted ... (Director)
- Five O'Clock Shadows ... (Director)
2015
- A Rented Space ... (Director)
- The Breeze and Him ... (Director)
- Angels We ... (Director)
- Museum of Damaged Art ... (Director)
- Age of Anxiety ... (Director)
- Boy in the Mirror ... (Director)
- Wrestling with Angels ... (Director)
2014
- Adam’s Apple ... (Director)
- Soul Searchers ... (Director)
- Chromatic Effusion ... (Director)
- Rat Nest ... (Director)
- Coffee, Tea and Wizardry ... (Director)
- Chasing Shadows ... (Director)
- Blue Vibrations ... (Director)
- Lost Blues ... (Director)
- Dreamsville ... (Director)
- Summer Sins ... (Director)
2013
- SoulMates ... (Director)
- Fallen Angels ... (Director)
- The Dragon’s Son ... (Director)
- Ascension ... (Director)
- Devil’s Den ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
2012
- Meltdown ... (Director)
- Disordered ... (Director)
- Tickled Pink ... (Director)
- Starbound ... (Director)
2011
- Litany of the Seven Kisses ... (Director)
- Free Form Frolic ... (Director)
- The Stone Boy ... (Director)
- Splatter Movie ... (Director)
2010
- The Dreamer’s Tale ... (Director)
- Opal Essence ... (Director)
- Snow Beard
- Debbie and the Demons ... (Director)
- Echo’s Garden ... (Director)
- Medusa’s Gaze ... (Director)
2009
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
- The Unmentionables
- Animal ... (Director)
- Idyll ... (Director)
- The Tiger ... (Director)
- Bedeviled ... (Director)
- Swan Song ... (Director)
- Dumped! ... (Director)
- Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales ... (Director)
- Ephemeral Seizure ... (Director)
2008
- Song of the Seven Senses ... (Director)
- A Midsummer's Nightmare ... (Director)
- Witchery ... (Director)
- Peek-A-Boo ... (Director)
- The Vernal Zone ... (Director)
- The Faery Garden ... (Director)
- A Dream of Roses ... (Director)
- A Brief Summer’s Tale ... (Director)
2007
- 365 Day Project as Self
- Vortex ... (Director)
- Fruit of the Serpent ... (Director)
- Scarlet Petals ... (Director)
- State of Mind ... (Director)
- Incantation ... (Director)
- Paradise Gone ... (Director)
2006
- Meet The Kuchar Brothers
- Zoology ... (Director)
- Haunted ... (Director)
- Midnight Mass ... (Director)
- A Poem for Summer ... (Director)
- Sweet Dreams ... (Director)
- Celestial Murmurs ... (Director)
2005
- BIRD IN THE SKY as Grandfather
- NightRise ... (Director)
- The Prayers of Cupie LaRue ... (Director)
- Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase ... (Director)
- Atonement ... (Director)
- In the Garden of Eros ... (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
- Boy Toys ... (Director)
- Tryst ... (Director)
1998
- The Stranger in Apartment 9F ... (Director)
- Domain of the Pixel Pixies as Himself
1997
- Purgatory Junction ... (Director)
- On a Shore Beneath the Sky ... (Director)
- A Widow's Web ... (Director)
- Candy Coated Evil ... (Director)
1996
- Statue in the Park ... (Director)
- The Bristled Dagger ... (Director)
1995
- The Second Coming ... (Cinematography)
- An Evil Town
- The Pictures of Dorian Gray ... (Director)
- Cupid’s Infirmary ... (Director)
1994
- Urchins of Ungawa
- Blue Banshee ... (Director)
1992
- Award as Himself
1990
- Kiss Napoleon Goodbye ... (Cinematography)
- Life Is Like a Cucumber ... (Cinematography)
- Positive ... (Director of Photography)
- Silence = Death ... (Director of Photography)
1987
1986
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Seascape ... (Director)
- Fable for a New Age ... (Director)
- Tone Poem ... (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
- The Devil's Cleavage ... (Cinematography)
- Magicman
- Fur of the Field ... (Director)
- Bloodsucker ... (Director)
1972
- Peed Into the Wind
- Faraway Places ... (Director)
- Didgeridoo ... (Director)
1971
1970
- Tales of the Bronx ... (Director)
- Abode of the Snows ... (Director)
1969
1968
- Underground New York as Self
- The Mammal Palace
- Variations ... (Director)
1967
- The Craven Sluck ... (Director)
- Color Me Shameless
- Fragments ... (Director)
- The Unclean as Himself
1966
- The Secret of Wendel Samson as Wendel Samson (voice)
- River Windows
- Galaxie as Self
- Green Desire ... (Director)
1965
- Sins of the Fleshapoids ... (Director)
- Corruption of the Damned
1964
- Lust for Ecstasy
- Born of the Wind ... (Director)
1963
- Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof ... (Director)
- Tootsies in Autumn ... (Director)
- Confessions of Babette as Leonard
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)