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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.
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

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