Mike Kuchar
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.
As actor 46
Cinématon
1978
Divine Trash
2000
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Seadrift
1976
365 Day Project
2007
It Came from Kuchar
2009
Underground New York
1968
Magicman
1975
The Mammal Palace
1968
An Evil Town
1995
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974
Galaxie
1966
Oh Hi Anne
2017
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
My Morning with Magic Mike
2023
The Creeping Crimson
1987
Snow Beard
2010
River Windows
1966
Award
1992
The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966
Beaver Fever
1974
BIRD IN THE SKY
2005
The Unclean
1967
The Unmentionables
2009
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
1983
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987
Lust for Ecstasy
1964
Portrait of Ramona
1971
Peed Into the Wind
1972
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989
True Blue and Dreamy
1974
Color Me Shameless
1967
Urchins of Ungawa
1994
Corruption of the Damned
1965
Sylvia’s Promise
1962
Bird, Bath and Beyond
2004
Confessions of Babette
1963
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
The Shadow Glass
1976
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989
Chronicles
1969
Cult of the Cubicles
1987
Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
1988
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
1998
Return to the House of Pain
1988
East by Southwest
1987
On the crew 144
NightRise
2005
Summer Sins
2014
Soul Searchers
2014
Ephemeral Seizure
2009
Witchery
2008
Sins of the Fleshapoids
1965
Tone Poem
1984
Tickled Pink
2012
Midnight Mass
2006
Zoology
2006
Street Meat
2018
The Stranger in Apartment 9F
1998
Positive
1990
Romance
2004
Silence = Death
1990
Animal
2009
Sunkissed
2019
Miss Philly’s Valentine
2003
Opal Essence
2010
Dreamsville
2014
Blue Banshee
1994
Peek-A-Boo
2008
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
1990
Boy Toys
2000
Paradise Gone
2007
Statue in the Park
1996
The Devil's Cleavage
1975
The Prayers of Cupie LaRue
2005
The Second Coming
1995
Atonement
2005
Incantation
2007
Song of the Seven Senses
2008
Splatter Movie
2011
On a Shore Beneath the Sky
1997
In the Garden of Eros
2005
Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990
Green Desire
1966
Broken Gods
2017
Bedeviled
2009
Chromatic Effusion
2014
Starbound
2012
Haunted
2006
Variations
1968
Angels We
2015
Rat Nest
2014
Fallen Angels
2013
Dumped!
2009
The Tiger
2009
The Naked and the Nude
1957
Faraway Places
1972
Medusa’s Gaze
2010
Abstracted
2016
The Stone Boy
2011
Idyll
2009
Pathways
2019
Fragments
1967
Soul Catcher
2017
Happy Birthday!
2013
Lost Blues
2014
Sunlit Sorcery
2022
Vortex
2007
The Bristled Dagger
1996
The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966
Scarlet Petals
2007
Inspiration
2003
Bloodsucker
1975
Chasing Shadows
2014
Celestial Horizons
2019
Litany of the Seven Kisses
2011
SoulMates
2013
Disordered
2012
Seascape
1984
Sweet Dreams
2006
Ascension
2013
Born of the Wind
1964
Wind in My Sails
2002
Celestial Murmurs
2006
SoulSurfers
2017
NightScape
2017
The Craven Sluck
1967
Swan Song
2009
Tryst
2000
Inward Bound
2019
A Rented Space
2015
Blue Vibrations
2014
Meltdown
2012
The Slasher
1958
Candy Coated Evil
1997
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
1963
The Faery Garden
2008
State of Mind
2007
Day Dreaming
2004
Purgatory Junction
1997
The Thief and the Stripper
1959
Happy Birthday!
2013
Cupid’s Infirmary
1995
Fable for a New Age
1984
Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase
2005
Age of Anxiety
2015
Fur of the Field
1975
The Vernal Zone
2008
Free Form Frolic
2011
Shepherd’s Poem
2002
Adam’s Apple
2014
Moon Lit Vows
2017
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
1960
Devil’s Den
2013
A Midsummer's Nightmare
2008
Boy in the Mirror
2015
Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales
2009
Meat with Bones
2017
Abode of the Snows
1970
Confessions of Babette
1963
Echo’s Garden
2010
The Breeze and Him
2015
Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults
1976
A Brief Summer’s Tale
2008
Museum of Damaged Art
2015
The Dragon’s Son
2013
Night of the Bomb
1962
The Season of Shadows and Flame
2018
Didgeridoo
1972
Coffee, Tea and Wizardry
2014
Tales of the Bronx
1970
Kuchar-esque
2024
A Widow's Web
1997
A Reel of Home Movies
1961
A Poem for Summer
2006
Keeper of Secrets
2017
A Tub Named Desire
1956
Five O'Clock Shadows
2016
The Pictures of Dorian Gray
1995
Fruit of the Serpent
2007
Chronicles
1969
The Voice in the Man
2023
A Dream of Roses
2008
Tootsies in Autumn
1963
The Dreamer’s Tale
2010
Dark Night of the Soul
2016
Flesh and the Stars
2018
Heaven Cannot Hold Them
2004
Wrestling with Angels
2015
Him in the Night
2019
Debbie and the Demons
2010