Directing · b. 1942 · 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 ...

Directed
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 Soul Catcher 2017 SoulSurfers 2017 Meat with Bones 2017 NightScape 2017 Broken Gods 2017 Moon Lit Vows 2017 Keeper of Secrets 2017 Five O'Clock Shadows 2016 Abstracted 2016 Dark Night of the Soul 2016 Museum of Damaged Art 2015 A Rented Space 2015 Age of Anxiety 2015 Boy in the Mirror 2015 Angels We 2015 The Breeze and Him 2015 Wrestling with Angels 2015 Blue Vibrations 2014 Chasing Shadows 2014 Lost Blues 2014 Chromatic Effusion 2014 Adam’s Apple 2014 Coffee, Tea and Wizardry 2014 Dreamsville 2014 Summer Sins 2014 Soul Searchers 2014 Rat Nest 2014 SoulMates 2013 Ascension 2013 The Dragon’s Son 2013 Fallen Angels 2013 Devil’s Den 2013 Happy Birthday! 2013 Happy Birthday! 2013 Tickled Pink 2012 Disordered 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 Dumped! 2009 Swan Song 2009 The Tiger 2009 Bedeviled 2009 Ephemeral Seizure 2009 Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales 2009 Idyll 2009 Animal 2009 The Vernal Zone 2008 A Brief Summer’s Tale 2008 The Faery Garden 2008 A Dream of Roses 2008 Song of the Seven Senses 2008 Witchery 2008 Peek-A-Boo 2008 A Midsummer's Nightmare 2008 Incantation 2007 Vortex 2007 State of Mind 2007 Paradise Gone 2007 Scarlet Petals 2007 Fruit of the Serpent 2007 Sweet Dreams 2006 Celestial Murmurs 2006 A Poem for Summer 2006 Haunted 2006 Zoology 2006 Midnight Mass 2006 Atonement 2005 Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase 2005 NightRise 2005 In the Garden of Eros 2005 The Prayers of Cupie LaRue 2005 Day Dreaming 2004 Romance 2004 Heaven Cannot Hold Them 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 Purgatory Junction 1997 Candy Coated Evil 1997 On a Shore Beneath the Sky 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 Green Desire 1966 The Secret of Wendel Samson 1966 Sins of the Fleshapoids 1965 Born of the Wind 1964 Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof 1963 Tootsies in Autumn 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
Cinematography
Positive 1990 Silence = Death 1990 Sins of the Fleshapoids 1965
Acting
My Morning with Magic Mike Self 2023 Oh Hi Anne Himself 2017 Snow Beard 2010 It Came from Kuchar Self 2009 The Unmentionables 2009 365 Day Project Self 2007 Meet The Kuchar Brothers 2006 BIRD IN THE SKY Grandfather 2005 Bird, Bath and Beyond Self 2004 Divine Trash Self 2000 Domain of the Pixel Pixies Himself 1998 An Evil Town 1995 Urchins of Ungawa 1994 Award Himself 1992 Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s 1989 Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness 1989 Return to the House of Pain Self 1988 Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar 1988 East by Southwest 1987 Video Album 5: The Thursday People 1987 The Creeping Crimson 1987 Cult of the Cubicles Himself 1987 He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life Self (archive footage) 1986 George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground Himself 1983 Cinématon N°1085 1978 George and Mike Kuchar Self 1977 The Shadow Glass 1976 Seadrift 1976 Magicman 1975 Nudes: A Sketchbook 1974
Other Credits
The Second Coming Cinematography 1995 Life Is Like a Cucumber Cinematography 1990 Kiss Napoleon Goodbye Cinematography 1990 The Devil's Cleavage Cinematography 1975
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