Mike Kuchar

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Known For Directing

Known Credits 175

Gender Male

Birthday August 31, 1942 (81 years old)

Place of Birth New York, New York

Also Known As

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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

Directing

2024

… Director

2019		Celestial Horizons … Director
2019		Sunkissed … Director
2019		Pathways … Director
2019		Inward Bound … Director
2019		Him in the Night … Director

2018		Street Meat … Director
2018		Flesh and the Stars … Director
2018		The Season of Shadows and Flame … Director

2017		SoulSurfers … Director
2017		Moon Lit Vows … Director
2017		Keeper of Secrets … Director
2017		Broken Gods … Director
2017		Soul Catcher … Director
2017		NightScape … Director
2017		Meat with Bones … Director

2016		Dark Night of the Soul … Director
2016		Abstracted … Director
2016		Five O'Clock Shadows … Director

2015		The Breeze and Him … Director
2015		Age of Anxiety … Director
2015		Boy in the Mirror … Director
2015		Angels We … Director
2015		A Rented Space … Director
2015		Wrestling with Angels … Director
2015		Museum of Damaged Art … Director

2014		Blue Vibrations … Director
2014		Chromatic Effusion … Director
2014		Summer Sins … Director
2014		Coffee, Tea and Wizardry … Director
2014		Dreamsville … Director
2014		Adam’s Apple … Director
2014		Lost Blues … Director
2014		Soul Searchers … Director
2014		Chasing Shadows … Director
2014		Rat Nest … Director

2013		Fallen Angels … Director
2013		Ascension … Director
2013		The Dragon’s Son … Director
2013		Devil’s Den … Director
2013		SoulMates … Director

2012		Disordered … Director
2012		Tickled Pink … Director
2012		Meltdown … Director

2011		Litany of the Seven Kisses … Director
2011		The Stone Boy … Director
2011		Free Form Frolic … Director
2011		Splatter Movie … Director

2010		Opal Essence … Director
2010		Medusa’s Gaze … Director
2010		Debbie and the Demons … Director
2010		The Dreamer’s Tale … Director
2010		Echo’s Garden … Director

2009		Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales … Director
2009		Idyll … Director
2009		Ephemeral Seizure … Director
2009		Bedeviled … Director
2009		Animal … Director
2009		The Tiger … Director
2009		Swan Song … Director
2009		Dumped! … Director

2008		Witchery … Director
2008		Song of the Seven Senses … Director
2008		The Faery Garden … Director
2008		A Dream of Roses … Director
2008		A Brief Summer’s Tale … Director
2008		A Midsummer's Nightmare … Director
2008		The Vernal Zone … Director
2008		Peek-A-Boo … Director

2007		Vortex … Director
2007		Fruit of the Serpent … Director
2007		State of Mind … Director
2007		Scarlet Petals … Director
2007		Paradise Gone … Director
2007		Incantation … Director

2006		Haunted … Director
2006		Zoology … Director
2006		A Poem for Summer … Director
2006		Celestial Murmurs … Director
2006		Midnight Mass … Director
2006		Sweet Dreams … Director

2005		NightRise … Director
2005		In the Garden of Eros … Director
2005		The Prayers of Cupie LaRue … Director
2005		Atonement … Director
2005		Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase … Director

2004		Heaven Cannot Hold Them … Director
2004		Romance … Director
2004		Day Dreaming … Director

2003		Miss Philly’s Valentine … Director
2003		Inspiration … Director

2002		Shepherd’s Poem … Director
2002		Wind in My Sails … Director

2000		Boy Toys … Director
2000		Tryst … Director

1998

… Director

1997		On a Shore Beneath the Sky … Director
1997		Candy Coated Evil … Director
1997		A Widow's Web … Director
1997		Purgatory Junction … Director

1996		The Bristled Dagger … Director
1996		Statue in the Park … Director

1995		Cupid’s Infirmary … Director
1995		The Pictures of Dorian Gray … Director

1994

… Director

1984		Seascape … Director
1984		Fable for a new age … Director

1976

… Director

1975

… Director

1970		Abode of the Snows … Director
1970		Tales of the Bronx … Director

1969

… Director

1968

… Director

1967		Fragments … Director
1967		The Craven Sluck … Director

1966		The Secret of Wendel Samson … Director
1966		Green Desire … Director

1965

… Director

1964

… Director

1963		Tootsies in Autumn … Director
1963		Confessions of Babette … Director

1962

… Director

1961		A Reel of Home Movies … Director
1961		Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof … Director

1960

… Director

1959

… Director

1958

… Director

1957

… Director

1956

… Director

Acting

2023

as Self

2017

as Himself

2010

2009

as Self

2006

2005

as Grandfather

2004

as Self

2000

as Self

1998

as Himself

1995

1994

1992

as Himself

1989		Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989		Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

1988		Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
1988		Return to the House of Pain as Self

1987		The Creeping Crimson
1987		Cult of the Cubicles as Himself
1987		Video Album 5: The Thursday People

1986

as Self

1983

as Himself

1978

as N°1085

1977

as Self

1976		The Shadow Glass
1976		Seadrift

1975

1974		Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974		Beaver Fever
1974		True Blue and Dreamy

1972

1971

1969

1968		Underground New York as Self
1968		The Mammal Palace

1967		Color Me Shameless
1967		The Unclean as Himself

1966		Galaxie as Himself
1966		The Secret of Wendel Samson as Wendel Samson (voice)
1966		River Windows

1965

1964

1963

as Leonard

1962

Writing

2024

… Writer

2009		Swan Song … Writer
2009		Dumped! … Writer

1967

… Writer

1965

… Writer

Crew

1995

… Cinematography

1990		Life Is Like a Cucumber … Cinematography
1990		Kiss Napoleon Goodbye … Cinematography

1975

… Cinematography

1965

… Cinematography

Camera

1990		Positive … Director of Photography
1990		Silence = Death … Director of Photography

Production

1965

… Producer

Editing

1965

… Editor

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