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.
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Movies (191)
Kuchar-esque
2024 · Writer, Director
My Morning with Magic Mike
2023 · Self
The Voice in the Man
2023 · Director
Sunlit Sorcery
2022 · Director
Age of Awareness
2021 · Director
Celestial Horizons
2019 · Director
Sunkissed
2019 · Director
Pathways
2019 · Director
Him in the Night
2019 · Director
Inward Bound
2019 · Director
The Guy Next Door
2019 · Director
Street Meat
2018 · Director
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
Perplexities
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
2004 · Director
Day Dreaming
2004 · Director
Romance
2004 · Director
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
A Big Ass Lust for Speed
2001 · mysterious man
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
1988
Return to the House of Pain
1988 · Self
The Creeping Crimson
1987
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
1984 · Director
Tone Poem
1984 · Director
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
1983 · Himself
Cinématon
1978 · N°1085
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
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
1965 · Director
Corruption of the Damned
1965
Sins of the Fleshapoids
1965 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
Lust for Ecstasy
1964
Born of the Wind
1964 · Director
Tootsies in Autumn
1963 · Director
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
1963 · Director
Confessions of Babette
1963 · Leonard, Director
Sylvia’s Promise
1962
Night of the Bomb
1962 · Director
A Reel of Home Movies
1961 · Director
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
1960 · Director
The Thief and the Stripper
1959 · Director
The Slasher
1958 · Director
The Naked and the Nude
1957 · Director
A Tub Named Desire
1956 · Director
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