Mike Kuchar
Directing
Born August 31, 1942 · 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.
Directed (138)
Kuchar-esque
2024
The Voice in the Man
2023
Sunlit Sorcery
2022
Celestial Horizons
2019
Pathways
2019
Sunkissed
2019
Inward Bound
2019
Him in the Night
2019
Street Meat
2018
The Season of Shadows and Flame
2018
Flesh and the Stars
2018
SoulSurfers
2017
Soul Catcher
2017
Meat with Bones
2017
NightScape
2017
Broken Gods
2017
Moon Lit Vows
2017
Keeper of Secrets
2017
Dark Night of the Soul
2016
Abstracted
2016
Five O'Clock Shadows
2016
Age of Anxiety
2015
Boy in the Mirror
2015
Angels We
2015
The Breeze and Him
2015
A Rented Space
2015
Museum of Damaged Art
2015
Wrestling with Angels
2015
Blue Vibrations
2014
Chromatic Effusion
2014
Adam’s Apple
2014
Coffee, Tea and Wizardry
2014
Dreamsville
2014
Summer Sins
2014
Lost Blues
2014
Soul Searchers
2014
Chasing Shadows
2014
Rat Nest
2014
Ascension
2013
The Dragon’s Son
2013
Fallen Angels
2013
Devil’s Den
2013
SoulMates
2013
Happy Birthday!
2013
Happy Birthday!
2013
Disordered
2012
Tickled Pink
2012
Meltdown
2012
Starbound
2012
Litany of the Seven Kisses
2011
Free Form Frolic
2011
The Stone Boy
2011
Splatter Movie
2011
Debbie and the Demons
2010
Echo’s Garden
2010
The Dreamer’s Tale
2010
Opal Essence
2010
Medusa’s Gaze
2010
Bedeviled
2009
Ephemeral Seizure
2009
Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales
2009
Idyll
2009
Dumped!
2009
Swan Song
2009
The Tiger
2009
Animal
2009
A Brief Summer’s Tale
2008
The Faery Garden
2008
A Dream of Roses
2008
Song of the Seven Senses
2008
Witchery
2008
A Midsummer's Nightmare
2008
The Vernal Zone
2008
Peek-A-Boo
2008
Vortex
2007
State of Mind
2007
Paradise Gone
2007
Scarlet Petals
2007
Fruit of the Serpent
2007
Incantation
2007
Celestial Murmurs
2006
A Poem for Summer
2006
Haunted
2006
Zoology
2006
Sweet Dreams
2006
Midnight Mass
2006
Atonement
2005
NightRise
2005
In the Garden of Eros
2005
The Prayers of Cupie LaRue
2005
Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase
2005
Heaven Cannot Hold Them
2004
Day Dreaming
2004
Romance
2004
Miss Philly’s Valentine
2003
Inspiration
2003
Shepherd’s Poem
2002
Wind in My Sails
2002
Boy Toys
2000
Tryst
2000
The Stranger in Apartment 9F
1998
Candy Coated Evil
1997
On a Shore Beneath the Sky
1997
Purgatory Junction
1997
A Widow's Web
1997
The Bristled Dagger
1996
Statue in the Park
1996
Cupid’s Infirmary
1995
The Pictures of Dorian Gray
1995
Blue Banshee
1994
Seascape
1984
Fable for a New Age
1984
Tone Poem
1984
Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults
1976
Bloodsucker
1975
Fur of the Field
1975
Didgeridoo
1972
Faraway Places
1972
Abode of the Snows
1970
Tales of the Bronx
1970
Chronicles
1969
Variations
1968
The Craven Sluck
1967
Fragments
1967
The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966
Green Desire
1966
Sins of the Fleshapoids
1965
Born of the Wind
1964
Tootsies in Autumn
1963
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
1963
Confessions of Babette
1963
Night of the Bomb
1962
A Reel of Home Movies
1961
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
1960
The Thief and the Stripper
1959
The Slasher
1958
The Naked and the Nude
1957
A Tub Named Desire
1956
Acting (46)
My Morning with Magic Mike
2023
Oh Hi Anne
2017
Snow Beard
2010
It Came from Kuchar
2009
The Unmentionables
2009
365 Day Project
2007
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
BIRD IN THE SKY
2005
Bird, Bath and Beyond
2004
Divine Trash
2000
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
1998
An Evil Town
1995
Urchins of Ungawa
1994
Award
1992
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
The Creeping Crimson
1987
East by Southwest
1987
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987
Cult of the Cubicles
1987
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
1983
Cinématon
1978
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
The Shadow Glass
1976
Seadrift
1976
Magicman
1975
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974
