Directing
Mike Kuchar
EN, DE, FR cinema · 191 credits
Born
31 August 1942 (age 84)
Birthplace
New York, New York
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
Filmography
Kuchar-esque
2024
Kuchar-esque
Writer, Director
Sunlit Sorcery
Director
Sunkissed
Director
Inward Bound
Director
Pathways
Director
Street Meat
Director
Oh Hi Anne
as Himself
SoulSurfers
Director
Soul Catcher
Director
NightScape
Director
Moon Lit Vows
Director
Broken Gods
Director
Abstracted
Director
A Rented Space
Director
Age of Anxiety
Director
Angels We
Director
Lost Blues
Director
Adam’s Apple
Director
Dreamsville
Director
Summer Sins
Director
Soul Searchers
Director
SoulMates
Director
Ascension
Director
Devil’s Den
Director
Fallen Angels
Director
Tickled Pink
Director
Disordered
Director
Meltdown
Director
Starbound
Director
The Stone Boy
Director
Splatter Movie
Director
Echo’s Garden
Director
Medusa’s Gaze
Director
Opal Essence
Director
Dumped!
2009
Dumped!
Director, Writer
Swan Song
Director, Writer
The Tiger
Director
Bedeviled
Director
Ephemeral Seizure
Director
Idyll
Director
Animal
Director
Witchery
Director
Peek-A-Boo
Director
365 Day Project
as Self
Incantation
Director
Paradise Gone
Director
Scarlet Petals
Director
State of Mind
Director
Sweet Dreams
Director
Haunted
Director
Zoology
Director
Midnight Mass
Director
BIRD IN THE SKY
as Grandfather
Atonement
Director
NightRise
Director
Day Dreaming
Director
Romance
Director
Shepherd’s Poem
Director
Divine Trash
as Self
Boy Toys
Director
Tryst
Director
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
as Himself
The Bristled Dagger
Director
The Second Coming
Cinematography
Blue Banshee
Director
Award
as Himself
Positive
Director of Photography
Silence = Death
Director of Photography
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Cinematography
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
Cinematography
Cult of the Cubicles
as Himself
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
Seascape
Director
Tone Poem
Director
Cinématon
as N°1085
The Devil's Cleavage
Cinematography
Bloodsucker
Director
Didgeridoo
Director
Faraway Places
Director
Chronicles
Actor, Director
The Craven Sluck
Director, Writer
Galaxie
as Self
The Secret of Wendel Samson
as Wendel Samson (voice), Director
Green Desire
Director
Sins of the Fleshapoids
Director, Editor, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
Born of the Wind
Director
Confessions of Babette
1963
Confessions of Babette
as Leonard, Director
A Tub Named Desire
Director