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
- Inward Bound ... (Director)
- Celestial Horizons ... (Director)
- Sunkissed ... (Director)
- Him in the Night ... (Director)
- Pathways ... (Director)
2018
- Street Meat ... (Director)
- The Season of Shadows and Flame ... (Director)
- Flesh and the Stars ... (Director)
2017
- Broken Gods ... (Director)
- Oh Hi Anne as Himself
- SoulSurfers ... (Director)
- NightScape ... (Director)
- Soul Catcher ... (Director)
- Keeper of Secrets ... (Director)
- Meat with Bones ... (Director)
- Moon Lit Vows ... (Director)
2016
- Abstracted ... (Director)
- Five O'Clock Shadows ... (Director)
- Dark Night of the Soul ... (Director)
2015
- Angels We ... (Director)
- Museum of Damaged Art ... (Director)
- Age of Anxiety ... (Director)
- Boy in the Mirror ... (Director)
- The Breeze and Him ... (Director)
- A Rented Space ... (Director)
- Wrestling with Angels ... (Director)
2014
- Soul Searchers ... (Director)
- Chasing Shadows ... (Director)
- Rat Nest ... (Director)
- Dreamsville ... (Director)
- Blue Vibrations ... (Director)
- Chromatic Effusion ... (Director)
- Summer Sins ... (Director)
- Adam’s Apple ... (Director)
- Lost Blues ... (Director)
- Coffee, Tea and Wizardry ... (Director)
2013
- Ascension ... (Director)
- The Dragon’s Son ... (Director)
- Fallen Angels ... (Director)
- SoulMates ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
- Devil’s Den ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
2012
- Tickled Pink ... (Director)
- Disordered ... (Director)
- Starbound ... (Director)
- Meltdown ... (Director)
2011
- Splatter Movie ... (Director)
- The Stone Boy ... (Director)
- Litany of the Seven Kisses ... (Director)
- Free Form Frolic ... (Director)
2010
- Snow Beard
- Opal Essence ... (Director)
- Debbie and the Demons ... (Director)
- The Dreamer’s Tale ... (Director)
- Echo’s Garden ... (Director)
- Medusa’s Gaze ... (Director)
2009
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
- The Tiger ... (Director)
- Animal ... (Director)
- Ephemeral Seizure ... (Director)
- Bedeviled ... (Director)
- Swan Song ... (Writer)
- Dumped! ... (Director)
- Idyll ... (Director)
- Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales ... (Director)
- The Unmentionables
2008
- Witchery ... (Director)
- A Brief Summer’s Tale ... (Director)
- A Dream of Roses ... (Director)
- A Midsummer's Nightmare ... (Director)
- Song of the Seven Senses ... (Director)
- Peek-A-Boo ... (Director)
- The Vernal Zone ... (Director)
- The Faery Garden ... (Director)
2007
- 365 Day Project as Self
- Paradise Gone ... (Director)
- Scarlet Petals ... (Director)
- Incantation ... (Director)
- Vortex ... (Director)
- Fruit of the Serpent ... (Director)
- State of Mind ... (Director)
2006
- Midnight Mass ... (Director)
- Zoology ... (Director)
- Sweet Dreams ... (Director)
- Haunted ... (Director)
- Celestial Murmurs ... (Director)
- Meet The Kuchar Brothers
- A Poem for Summer ... (Director)
2005
- Atonement ... (Director)
- BIRD IN THE SKY as Grandfather
- NightRise ... (Director)
- The Prayers of Cupie LaRue ... (Director)
- In the Garden of Eros ... (Director)
- Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase ... (Director)
2004
- Day Dreaming ... (Director)
- Romance ... (Director)
- Heaven Cannot Hold Them ... (Director)
- Bird, Bath and Beyond as Self
2003
- Inspiration ... (Director)
- Miss Philly’s Valentine ... (Director)
2002
- Wind in My Sails ... (Director)
- Shepherd’s Poem ... (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
- A Widow's Web ... (Director)
- On a Shore Beneath the Sky ... (Director)
- Candy Coated Evil ... (Director)
- Purgatory Junction ... (Director)
1996
- The Bristled Dagger ... (Director)
- Statue in the Park ... (Director)
1995
- The Second Coming ... (Cinematography)
- An Evil Town
- The Pictures of Dorian Gray ... (Director)
- Cupid’s Infirmary ... (Director)
1994
- Blue Banshee ... (Director)
- Urchins of Ungawa
1992
- Award as Himself
1990
- Positive ... (Director of Photography)
- Silence = Death ... (Director of Photography)
- Kiss Napoleon Goodbye ... (Cinematography)
- Life Is Like a Cucumber ... (Cinematography)
1987
1986
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Tone Poem ... (Director)
- Fable for a New Age ... (Director)
- Seascape ... (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
- Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults ... (Director)
- The Shadow Glass
1975
- Bloodsucker ... (Director)
- Magicman
- The Devil's Cleavage ... (Cinematography)
- Fur of the Field ... (Director)
1972
- Didgeridoo ... (Director)
- Peed Into the Wind
- Faraway Places ... (Director)
1971
1970
- Abode of the Snows ... (Director)
- Tales of the Bronx ... (Director)
1969
1968
- Underground New York as Self
- The Mammal Palace
- Variations ... (Director)
1967
- The Craven Sluck ... (Writer)
- Fragments ... (Director)
- Color Me Shameless
- The Unclean as Himself
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
- Born of the Wind ... (Director)
- Lust for Ecstasy
1963
- Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof ... (Director)
- Confessions of Babette as Leonard
- Tootsies in Autumn ... (Director)
1962
- Sylvia’s Promise
- Night of the Bomb ... (Director)
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)