Mike Kuchar

Known For: Directing
Born: August 31, 1942
Place of Birth: New York, New York

Mike Kuchar

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

Kuchar-esque

2024 · Writer, Director

My Morning with Magic Mike

2023 · Self

The Voice in the Man

2023 · Director

Sunlit Sorcery

2022 · Director

Celestial Horizons

2019 · Director

Sunkissed

2019 · Director

Pathways

2019 · Director

Him in the Night

2019 · Director

Inward Bound

2019 · Director

Street Meat

2018 · Director

Flesh and the Stars

Flesh and the Stars

2018 · Director

The Season of Shadows and Flame

2018 · Director

NightScape

2017 · Director

SoulSurfers

2017 · Director

Oh Hi Anne

2017 · Himself

Soul Catcher

2017 · Director

Meat with Bones

2017 · Director

Broken Gods

2017 · Director

Keeper of Secrets

2017 · Director

Moon Lit Vows

2017 · Director

Dark Night of the Soul

2016 · Director

Abstracted

2016 · Director

Five O'Clock Shadows

2016 · Director

Age of Anxiety

2015 · Director

Angels We

2015 · Director

The Breeze and Him

2015 · Director

Boy in the Mirror

2015 · Director

A Rented Space

2015 · Director

Museum of Damaged Art

2015 · Director

Wrestling with Angels

2015 · Director

Blue Vibrations

2014 · Director

Adam’s Apple

2014 · Director

Coffee, Tea and Wizardry

2014 · Director

Chromatic Effusion

2014 · Director

Dreamsville

2014 · Director

Summer Sins

2014 · Director

Lost Blues

2014 · Director

Soul Searchers

2014 · Director

Chasing Shadows

2014 · Director

Rat Nest

2014 · Director

Ascension

2013 · Director

The Dragon’s Son

2013 · Director

Devil’s Den

2013 · Director

Fallen Angels

2013 · Director

SoulMates

2013 · Director

Happy Birthday!

2013 · Director

Happy Birthday!

2013 · Director

Disordered

2012 · Director

Tickled Pink

2012 · Director

Meltdown

2012 · Director

Starbound

2012 · Director

Litany of the Seven Kisses

2011 · Director

The Stone Boy

2011 · Director

Free Form Frolic

2011 · Director

Splatter Movie

2011 · Director

Echo’s Garden

2010 · Director

Debbie and the Demons

2010 · Director

The Dreamer’s Tale

2010 · Director

Medusa’s Gaze

2010 · Director

Opal Essence

2010 · Director

Snow Beard

2010

It Came from Kuchar

2009 · Self

Bedeviled

2009 · Director

Ephemeral Seizure

2009 · Director

Idyll

2009 · Director

Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales

2009 · Director

The Unmentionables

2009

Dumped!

2009 · Director, Writer

Swan Song

2009 · Director, Writer

The Tiger

2009 · Director

Animal

2009 · Director

A Brief Summer’s Tale

2008 · Director

A Dream of Roses

2008 · Director

The Faery Garden

2008 · Director

Song of the Seven Senses

2008 · Director

Witchery

2008 · Director

A Midsummer's Nightmare

2008 · Director

The Vernal Zone

2008 · Director

Peek-A-Boo

2008 · Director

365 Day Project

2007 · Self

Vortex

2007 · Director

State of Mind

2007 · Director

Paradise Gone

2007 · Director

Fruit of the Serpent

2007 · Director

Scarlet Petals

2007 · Director

Incantation

2007 · Director

Celestial Murmurs

2006 · Director

Zoology

2006 · Director

A Poem for Summer

2006 · Director

Haunted

2006 · Director

Meet The Kuchar Brothers

2006

Sweet Dreams

2006 · Director

Midnight Mass

2006 · Director

Atonement

2005 · Director

NightRise

2005 · Director

The Prayers of Cupie LaRue

2005 · Director

In the Garden of Eros

2005 · Director

BIRD IN THE SKY

2005 · Grandfather

Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase

2005 · Director

Heaven Cannot Hold Them

Heaven Cannot Hold Them

2004 · Director

Day Dreaming

2004 · Director

Romance

2004 · Director

Bird, Bath and Beyond

Bird, Bath and Beyond

2004 · Self

Miss Philly’s Valentine

2003 · Director

Inspiration

2003 · Director

Shepherd’s Poem

2002 · Director

Wind in My Sails

2002 · Director

Boy Toys

2000 · Director

Divine Trash

2000 · Self

Tryst

2000 · Director

The Stranger in Apartment 9F

1998 · Director

Domain of the Pixel Pixies

1998 · Himself

Candy Coated Evil

1997 · Director

On a Shore Beneath the Sky

1997 · Director

Purgatory Junction

1997 · Director

A Widow's Web

1997 · Director

The Bristled Dagger

1996 · Director

Statue in the Park

1996 · Director

The Second Coming

1995 · Cinematography

Cupid’s Infirmary

1995 · Director

The Pictures of Dorian Gray

1995 · Director

An Evil Town

1995

Blue Banshee

1994 · Director

Urchins of Ungawa

1994

Award

1992 · Himself

Life Is Like a Cucumber

1990 · Cinematography

Positive

1990 · Director of Photography

Silence = Death

1990 · Director of Photography

Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

1990 · Cinematography

Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

1989

Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

1989

Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar

Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar

1988

Return to the House of Pain

Return to the House of Pain

1988 · Self

The Creeping Crimson

1987

East by Southwest

East by Southwest

1987

Video Album 5: The Thursday People

1987

Cult of the Cubicles

1987 · Himself

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

1986 · Self (archive footage)

Seascape

1984 · Director

Fable for a New Age

Fable for a New Age

1984 · Director

Tone Poem

1984 · Director

George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

1983 · Himself

Cinématon

1978 · N°1085

George and Mike Kuchar

George and Mike Kuchar

1977 · Self

Seadrift

1976

The Shadow Glass

1976

Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults

1976 · Director

The Devil's Cleavage

1975 · Cinematography

Bloodsucker

1975 · Director

Magicman

1975

Fur of the Field

1975 · Director

Nudes: A Sketchbook

1974

True Blue and Dreamy

1974

Beaver Fever

1974

Didgeridoo

1972 · Director

Peed Into the Wind

1972

Faraway Places

1972 · Director

Portrait of Ramona

1971

Abode of the Snows

1970 · Director

Tales of the Bronx

1970 · Director

Chronicles

1969 · , Director

Variations

1968 · Director

Underground New York

1968 · Self

The Mammal Palace

The Mammal Palace

1968

Color Me Shameless

1967

The Craven Sluck

1967 · Director, Writer

Fragments

1967 · Director

The Unclean

1967 · Himself

Galaxie

1966 · Self

The Secret of Wendel Samson

1966 · Wendel Samson (voice), Director

River Windows

1966

Green Desire

1966 · Director

Corruption of the Damned

1965

Sins of the Fleshapoids

1965 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography

Lust for Ecstasy

Lust for Ecstasy

1964

Born of the Wind

1964 · Director

Tootsies in Autumn

Tootsies in Autumn

1963 · Director

Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof

Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof

1963 · Director

Confessions of Babette

Confessions of Babette

1963 · Leonard, Director

Sylvia’s Promise

Sylvia’s Promise

1962

Night of the Bomb

Night of the Bomb

1962 · Director

A Reel of Home Movies

1961 · Director

I Was a Teenage Rumpot

I Was a Teenage Rumpot

1960 · Director

The Thief and the Stripper

The Thief and the Stripper

1959 · Director

The Slasher

1958 · Director

The Naked and the Nude

The Naked and the Nude

1957 · Director

A Tub Named Desire

1956 · Director

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