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.
Acting (31 movies)
Seadrift
1976
The Shadow Glass
1976
River Windows
1966
Peed Into the Wind
1972
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974
My Morning with Magic Mike
2023
Galaxie
1966
Underground New York
1968
Color Me Shameless
1967
True Blue and Dreamy
1974
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987
365 Day Project
2007
Corruption of the Damned
1965
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
1983
An Evil Town
1995
Divine Trash
2000
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
It Came from Kuchar
2009
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989
Urchins of Ungawa
1994
Portrait of Ramona
1971
The Creeping Crimson
1987
Oh Hi Anne
2017
Beaver Fever
1974
Cinématon
1978
Cult of the Cubicles
1987
Award
1992
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
1998
BIRD IN THE SKY
2005
Directing (135 movies)
Green Desire
1966
Sins of the Fleshapoids
1965
The Craven Sluck
1967
The Vernal Zone
2008
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
1961
Tootsies in Autumn
1963
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
1960
The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966
Born of the Wind
1964
Blue Vibrations
2014
SoulMates
2013
Chasing Shadows
2014
Lost Blues
2014
Seascape
1984
Dumped!
2009
Swan Song
2009
Museum of Damaged Art
2015
The Naked and the Nude
1957
The Thief and the Stripper
1959
The Slasher
1958
Night of the Bomb
1962
Confessions of Babette
1963
Fable for a new age
1984
Five O'Clock Shadows
2016
Soul Catcher
2017
NightScape
2017
SoulSurfers
2017
Meat with Bones
2017
Sweet Dreams
2006
The Tiger
2009
Tickled Pink
2012
Purgatory Junction
1997
Incantation
2007
Vortex
2007
Kuchar-esque
2024
Litany of the Seven Kisses
2011
A Rented Space
2015
Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase
2005
Adam’s Apple
2014
Abstracted
2016
Age of Anxiety
2015
Ascension
2013
Atonement
2005
Angels We
2015
Bedeviled
2009
Candy Coated Evil
1997
Coffee, Tea and Wizardry
2014
Chromatic Effusion
2014
The Breeze and Him
2015
Blue Banshee
1994
The Bristled Dagger
1996
Boy in the Mirror
2015
A Brief Summer’s Tale
2008
Boy Toys
2000
Celestial Murmurs
2006
The Dragon’s Son
2013
A Dream of Roses
2008
Echo’s Garden
2010
Dreamsville
2014
Ephemeral Seizure
2009
Disordered
2012
Cupid’s Infirmary
1995
Debbie and the Demons
2010
The Dreamer’s Tale
2010
The Faery Garden
2008
Devil’s Den
2013
Dark Night of the Soul
2016
Day Dreaming
2004
Fallen Angels
2013
State of Mind
2007
Zoology
2006
Miss Philly’s Valentine
2003
NightRise
2005
Abode of the Snows
1970
Paradise Gone
2007
Fruit of the Serpent
2007
Idyll
2009
Medusa’s Gaze
2010
Summer Sins
2014
A Poem for Summer
2006
The Prayers of Cupie LaRue
2005
Song of the Seven Senses
2008
Tryst
2000
In the Garden of Eros
2005
Shepherd’s Poem
2002
The Stranger in Apartment 9F
1998
Opal Essence
2010
Scarlet Petals
2007
The Stone Boy
2011
Free Form Frolic
2011
Haunted
2006
Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales
2009
On a Shore Beneath the Sky
1997
Romance
2004
Witchery
2008
Statue in the Park
1996
Peek-A-Boo
2008
Animal
2009
A Widow's Web
1997
Wind in My Sails
2002
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Sins of the Fleshapoids | 1965 | Writer |
| Sins of the Fleshapoids | 1965 | Producer |
| The Craven Sluck | 1967 | Writer |
| Swan Song | 2009 | Writer |
| Dumped! | 2009 | Writer |
| Kuchar-esque | 2024 | Writer |