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
2022
- Sunlit Sorcery ... (Director)
2019
- Celestial Horizons ... (Director)
- Pathways ... (Director)
- Sunkissed ... (Director)
- Him in the Night ... (Director)
- Inward Bound ... (Director)
2018
- Street Meat ... (Director)
- The Season of Shadows and Flame ... (Director)
- Flesh and the Stars ... (Director)
2017
- Soul Catcher ... (Director)
- Meat with Bones ... (Director)
- Oh Hi Anne as Himself
- Broken Gods ... (Director)
- SoulSurfers ... (Director)
- NightScape ... (Director)
- Moon Lit Vows ... (Director)
- Keeper of Secrets ... (Director)
2016
- Dark Night of the Soul ... (Director)
- Five O'Clock Shadows ... (Director)
- Abstracted ... (Director)
2015
- Wrestling with Angels ... (Director)
- A Rented Space ... (Director)
- Age of Anxiety ... (Director)
- The Breeze and Him ... (Director)
- Boy in the Mirror ... (Director)
- Angels We ... (Director)
- Museum of Damaged Art ... (Director)
2014
- Adam’s Apple ... (Director)
- Chasing Shadows ... (Director)
- Chromatic Effusion ... (Director)
- Lost Blues ... (Director)
- Blue Vibrations ... (Director)
- Coffee, Tea and Wizardry ... (Director)
- Summer Sins ... (Director)
- Soul Searchers ... (Director)
- Rat Nest ... (Director)
- Dreamsville ... (Director)
2013
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
- SoulMates ... (Director)
- Devil’s Den ... (Director)
- Ascension ... (Director)
- The Dragon’s Son ... (Director)
- Fallen Angels ... (Director)
- Happy Birthday! ... (Director)
2012
- Tickled Pink ... (Director)
- Disordered ... (Director)
- Meltdown ... (Director)
2011
- Splatter Movie ... (Director)
- Litany of the Seven Kisses ... (Director)
- Free Form Frolic ... (Director)
- The Stone Boy ... (Director)
2010
- Echo’s Garden ... (Director)
- The Dreamer’s Tale ... (Director)
- Snow Beard
- Debbie and the Demons ... (Director)
- Opal Essence ... (Director)
- Medusa’s Gaze ... (Director)
2009
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
- Animal ... (Director)
- Swan Song ... (Writer)
- Bedeviled ... (Director)
- Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales ... (Director)
- Idyll ... (Director)
- The Tiger ... (Director)
- Ephemeral Seizure ... (Director)
- Dumped! ... (Director)
2008
- Witchery ... (Director)
- The Vernal Zone ... (Director)
- A Dream of Roses ... (Director)
- Peek-A-Boo ... (Director)
- The Faery Garden ... (Director)
- A Brief Summer’s Tale ... (Director)
- Song of the Seven Senses ... (Director)
- A Midsummer's Nightmare ... (Director)
2007
- 365 Day Project
- Vortex ... (Director)
- Incantation ... (Director)
- Paradise Gone ... (Director)
- Scarlet Petals ... (Director)
- Fruit of the Serpent ... (Director)
- State of Mind ... (Director)
2006
- Meet The Kuchar Brothers
- Haunted ... (Director)
- Zoology ... (Director)
- Midnight Mass ... (Director)
- Sweet Dreams ... (Director)
- A Poem for Summer ... (Director)
- Celestial Murmurs ... (Director)
2005
- BIRD IN THE SKY as Grandfather
- Atonement ... (Director)
- The Prayers of Cupie LaRue ... (Director)
- In the Garden of Eros ... (Director)
- NightRise ... (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)
2000
- Divine Trash as Self
- Boy Toys ... (Director)
- Tryst ... (Director)
1998
- Domain of the Pixel Pixies as Himself
- The Stranger in Apartment 9F ... (Director)
1997
- Purgatory Junction ... (Director)
- A Widow's Web ... (Director)
- On a Shore Beneath the Sky ... (Director)
- Candy Coated Evil ... (Director)
1996
- The Bristled Dagger ... (Director)
- Statue in the Park ... (Director)
1995
- An Evil Town
- The Second Coming ... (Cinematography)
- The Pictures of Dorian Gray ... (Director)
- Cupid’s Infirmary ... (Director)
1994
- Urchins of Ungawa
- Blue Banshee ... (Director)
1992
- Award as Himself
1990
- Silence = Death ... (Director of Photography)
- Positive ... (Director of Photography)
- Kiss Napoleon Goodbye ... (Cinematography)
- Life Is Like a Cucumber ... (Cinematography)
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)
1983
- George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground as Himself
1978
- Cinématon as N°1085
1977
- George and Mike Kuchar as Self
1976
- The Shadow Glass
- Seadrift
- Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults ... (Director)
1975
- Magicman
- The Devil's Cleavage ... (Cinematography)
- Fur of the Field ... (Director)
- Bloodsucker ... (Director)
1972
- Peed Into the Wind
- Faraway Places ... (Director)
- Didgeridoo ... (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 ... (Writer)
- Color Me Shameless
- Fragments ... (Director)
1966
- Galaxie as Self
- The Secret of Wendel Samson as Wendel Samson (voice)
- 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
- 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)
- Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof ... (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)