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)
- The Season of Shadows and Flame ... (Director)
- Flesh and the Stars ... (Director)
2017
- Oh Hi Anne as Himself
- SoulSurfers ... (Director)
- Soul Catcher ... (Director)
- Broken Gods ... (Director)
- NightScape ... (Director)
- Meat with Bones ... (Director)
- Moon Lit Vows ... (Director)
- Keeper of Secrets ... (Director)
2016
- Dark Night of the Soul ... (Director)
- Abstracted ... (Director)
- Five O'Clock Shadows ... (Director)
2015
- Angels We ... (Director)
- Museum of Damaged Art ... (Director)
- The Breeze and Him ... (Director)
- A Rented Space ... (Director)
- Age of Anxiety ... (Director)
- Boy in the Mirror ... (Director)
- Wrestling with Angels ... (Director)
2014
- Soul Searchers ... (Director)
- Summer Sins ... (Director)
- Chromatic Effusion ... (Director)
- Chasing Shadows ... (Director)
- Lost Blues ... (Director)
- Rat Nest ... (Director)
- Blue Vibrations ... (Director)
- Adam’s Apple ... (Director)
- Coffee, Tea and Wizardry ... (Director)
- Dreamsville ... (Director)
2013
- The Dragon’s Son ... (Director)
- Ascension ... (Director)
- Fallen Angels ... (Director)
- Devil’s Den ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
- SoulMates ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
2012
- Tickled Pink ... (Director)
- Meltdown ... (Director)
- Disordered ... (Director)
- Starbound ... (Director)
2011
- The Stone Boy ... (Director)
- Litany of the Seven Kisses ... (Director)
- Splatter Movie ... (Director)
- Free Form Frolic ... (Director)
2010
- Opal Essence ... (Director)
- Medusa’s Gaze ... (Director)
- Snow Beard
- The Dreamer’s Tale ... (Director)
- Echo’s Garden ... (Director)
- Debbie and the Demons ... (Director)
2009
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
- Ephemeral Seizure ... (Director)
- Animal ... (Director)
- Bedeviled ... (Director)
- The Tiger ... (Director)
- Idyll ... (Director)
- Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales ... (Director)
- The Unmentionables
- Dumped! ... (Director)
- Swan Song ... (Director)
2008
- Witchery ... (Director)
- Song of the Seven Senses ... (Director)
- Peek-A-Boo ... (Director)
- A Midsummer's Nightmare ... (Director)
- The Faery Garden ... (Director)
- A Brief Summer’s Tale ... (Director)
- A Dream of Roses ... (Director)
- The Vernal Zone ... (Director)
2007
- 365 Day Project as Self
- Scarlet Petals ... (Director)
- Incantation ... (Director)
- State of Mind ... (Director)
- Fruit of the Serpent ... (Director)
- Paradise Gone ... (Director)
- Vortex ... (Director)
2006
- Zoology ... (Director)
- Midnight Mass ... (Director)
- Meet The Kuchar Brothers
- A Poem for Summer ... (Director)
- Sweet Dreams ... (Director)
- Celestial Murmurs ... (Director)
- Haunted ... (Director)
2005
- NightRise ... (Director)
- The Prayers of Cupie LaRue ... (Director)
- BIRD IN THE SKY as Grandfather
- In the Garden of Eros ... (Director)
- Atonement ... (Director)
- Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase ... (Director)
2004
- Romance ... (Director)
- Bird, Bath and Beyond as Self
- Day Dreaming ... (Director)
- Heaven Cannot Hold Them ... (Director)
2003
- Miss Philly’s Valentine ... (Director)
- Inspiration ... (Director)
2002
- Shepherd’s Poem ... (Director)
- Wind in My Sails ... (Director)
2001
- A Big Ass Lust for Speed as mysterious man
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
- On a Shore Beneath the Sky ... (Director)
- Purgatory Junction ... (Director)
- A Widow's Web ... (Director)
- Candy Coated Evil ... (Director)
1996
- Statue in the Park ... (Director)
- The Bristled Dagger ... (Director)
1995
- An Evil Town
- The Pictures of Dorian Gray ... (Director)
- The Second Coming ... (Cinematography)
- Cupid’s Infirmary ... (Director)
1994
- Blue Banshee ... (Director)
- Urchins of Ungawa
1992
- Award as Himself
1990
- Life Is Like a Cucumber ... (Cinematography)
- Positive ... (Director of Photography)
- Kiss Napoleon Goodbye ... (Cinematography)
- 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)
- Tone Poem ... (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
- Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults ... (Director)
- The Shadow Glass
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
- The Mammal Palace
- Underground New York as Self
- 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)
- Galaxie as Self
- Green Desire ... (Director)
- River Windows
1965
- Sins of the Fleshapoids ... (Director)
- Corruption of the Damned
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
- 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)