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Mike Kuchar

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
46

Gender
Male

Birthday
August 31, 1942 (83 years old)

Place of Birth
New York, New York

Mike Kuchar

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.

Known For

Writing

2024Kuchar-esque...Writer
2009Dumped!...Writer
2009Swan Song...Writer
1967The Craven Sluck...Writer
1965Sins of the Fleshapoids...Writer

Directing

2024Kuchar-esque...Director
2023The Voice in the Man...Director
2022Sunlit Sorcery...Director
2019Celestial Horizons...Director
2019Sunkissed...Director
2019Inward Bound...Director
2019Him in the Night...Director
2019Pathways...Director
2018Street Meat...Director
2018The Season of Shadows and Flame...Director
2018Flesh and the Stars...Director
2017SoulSurfers...Director
2017NightScape...Director
2017Soul Catcher...Director
2017Meat with Bones...Director
2017Moon Lit Vows...Director
2017Broken Gods...Director
2017Keeper of Secrets...Director
2016Dark Night of the Soul...Director
2016Abstracted...Director
2016Five O'Clock Shadows...Director
2015Age of Anxiety...Director
2015Angels We...Director
2015Boy in the Mirror...Director
2015The Breeze and Him...Director
2015A Rented Space...Director
2015Museum of Damaged Art...Director
2015Wrestling with Angels...Director
2014Blue Vibrations...Director
2014Adam’s Apple...Director
2014Chromatic Effusion...Director
2014Coffee, Tea and Wizardry...Director
2014Dreamsville...Director
2014Summer Sins...Director
2014Lost Blues...Director
2014Soul Searchers...Director
2014Chasing Shadows...Director
2014Rat Nest...Director
2013Ascension...Director
2013Devil’s Den...Director
2013The Dragon’s Son...Director
2013Fallen Angels...Director
2013SoulMates...Director
2013Happy Birthday!...Director
2013Happy Birthday!...Director
2012Disordered...Director
2012Tickled Pink...Director
2012Meltdown...Director
2012Starbound...Director
2011Litany of the Seven Kisses...Director
2011Free Form Frolic...Director
2011The Stone Boy...Director
2011Splatter Movie...Director
2010Debbie and the Demons...Director
2010The Dreamer’s Tale...Director
2010Echo’s Garden...Director
2010Medusa’s Gaze...Director
2010Opal Essence...Director
2009Bedeviled...Director
2009Ephemeral Seizure...Director
2009Idyll...Director
2009Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales...Director
2009Dumped!...Director
2009Swan Song...Director
2009The Tiger...Director
2009Animal...Director
2008A Brief Summer’s Tale...Director
2008A Dream of Roses...Director
2008The Faery Garden...Director
2008Song of the Seven Senses...Director
2008Witchery...Director
2008A Midsummer's Nightmare...Director
2008Peek-A-Boo...Director
2008The Vernal Zone...Director
2007Fruit of the Serpent...Director
2007Paradise Gone...Director
2007Scarlet Petals...Director
2007State of Mind...Director
2007Vortex...Director
2007Incantation...Director
2006Celestial Murmurs...Director
2006Haunted...Director
2006A Poem for Summer...Director
2006Zoology...Director
2006Sweet Dreams...Director
2006Midnight Mass...Director
2005Atonement...Director
2005In the Garden of Eros...Director
2005NightRise...Director
2005The Prayers of Cupie LaRue...Director
2005Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase...Director
2004Heaven Cannot Hold Them...Director
2004Day Dreaming...Director
2004Romance...Director
2003Miss Philly’s Valentine...Director
2003Inspiration...Director
2002Shepherd’s Poem...Director
2002Wind in My Sails...Director
2000Boy Toys...Director
2000Tryst...Director
1998The Stranger in Apartment 9F...Director
1997Candy Coated Evil...Director
1997On a Shore Beneath the Sky...Director
1997Purgatory Junction...Director
1997A Widow's Web...Director
1996The Bristled Dagger...Director
1996Statue in the Park...Director
1995Cupid’s Infirmary...Director
1995The Pictures of Dorian Gray...Director
1994Blue Banshee...Director
1984Seascape...Director
1984Fable for a New Age...Director
1984Tone Poem...Director
1976Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults...Director
1975Bloodsucker...Director
1975Fur of the Field...Director
1972Didgeridoo...Director
1972Faraway Places...Director
1970Abode of the Snows...Director
1970Tales of the Bronx...Director
1969Chronicles...Director
1968Variations...Director
1967Fragments...Director
1967The Craven Sluck...Director
1966The Secret of Wendel Samson...Director
1966Green Desire...Director
1965Sins of the Fleshapoids...Director
1964Born of the Wind...Director
1963Tootsies in Autumn...Director
1963Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof...Director
1963Confessions of Babette...Director
1962Night of the Bomb...Director
1961A Reel of Home Movies...Director
1960I Was a Teenage Rumpot...Director
1959The Thief and the Stripper...Director
1958The Slasher...Director
1957The Naked and the Nude...Director
1956A Tub Named Desire...Director

Crew

1995The Second Coming...Cinematography
1990Life Is Like a Cucumber...Cinematography
1990Kiss Napoleon Goodbye...Cinematography
1975The Devil's Cleavage...Cinematography

Camera

1990Positive...Director of Photography
1990Silence = Death...Director of Photography
1965Sins of the Fleshapoids...Director of Photography

Editing

1965Sins of the Fleshapoids...Editor

Production

1965Sins of the Fleshapoids...Producer

Acting

2023My Morning with Magic Mikeas Self
2017Oh Hi Anneas Himself
2010Snow Beardas
2009It Came from Kucharas Self
2009The Unmentionablesas
2007365 Day Projectas Self
2006Meet The Kuchar Brothersas
2005BIRD IN THE SKYas Grandfather
2004Bird, Bath and Beyondas Self
2000Divine Trashas Self
1998Domain of the Pixel Pixiesas Himself
1995An Evil Townas
1994Urchins of Ungawaas
1992Awardas Himself
1989Pictures at an Exhibitionist’sas
1989Fill Thy Crack with Whitenessas
1988Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kucharas
1988Return to the House of Painas Self
1987The Creeping Crimsonas
1987Cult of the Cubiclesas Himself
1987East by Southwestas
1987Video Album 5: The Thursday Peopleas
1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Lifeas Self (archive footage)
1983George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Undergroundas Himself
1978Cinématonas N°1085
1977George and Mike Kucharas Self
1976The Shadow Glassas
1976Seadriftas
1975Magicmanas
1974Nudes: A Sketchbookas
1974True Blue and Dreamyas
1974Beaver Feveras
1972Peed Into the Windas
1971Portrait of Ramonaas
1969Chroniclesas
1968The Mammal Palaceas
1968Underground New Yorkas Self
1967Color Me Shamelessas
1967The Uncleanas Himself
1966Galaxieas Self
1966The Secret of Wendel Samsonas Wendel Samson (voice)
1966River Windowsas
1965Corruption of the Damnedas
1964Lust for Ecstasyas
1963Confessions of Babetteas Leonard
1962Sylvia’s Promiseas