Mike Kuchar
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.
138 directing credits · 46 acting credits
Directing · 138
The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966
Sunkissed
2019
Keeper of Secrets
2017
Romance
2004
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
1963
A Rented Space
2015
The Stranger in Apartment 9F
1998
The Craven Sluck
1967
Night of the Bomb
1962
Soul Searchers
2014
Zoology
2006
Ascension
2013
Witchery
2008
Chronicles
1969
Abstracted
2016
Dark Night of the Soul
2016
Sins of the Fleshapoids
1965
The Slasher
1958
Boy Toys
2000
Meltdown
2012
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
1960
NightRise
2005
The Dragon’s Son
2013
Tales of the Bronx
1970
Miss Philly’s Valentine
2003
Green Desire
1966
Born of the Wind
1964
Wind in My Sails
2002
A Tub Named Desire
1956
Vortex
2007
A Reel of Home Movies
1961
Haunted
2006
Confessions of Babette
1963
The Thief and the Stripper
1959
Shepherd’s Poem
2002
Tryst
2000
Candy Coated Evil
1997
Fruit of the Serpent
2007
Museum of Damaged Art
2015
Didgeridoo
1972
Purgatory Junction
1997
Adam’s Apple
2014
Song of the Seven Senses
2008
Happy Birthday!
2013
Midnight Mass
2006
Opal Essence
2010
Kuchar-esque
2024
SoulSurfers
2017
Coffee, Tea and Wizardry
2014
Ephemeral Seizure
2009
Bedeviled
2009
Soul Catcher
2017
Debbie and the Demons
2010
On a Shore Beneath the Sky
1997
Boy in the Mirror
2015
Bloodsucker
1975
Atonement
2005
Echo’s Garden
2010
In the Garden of Eros
2005
A Poem for Summer
2006
The Breeze and Him
2015
Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults
1976
Disordered
2012
Abode of the Snows
1970
Idyll
2009
Blue Banshee
1994
Summer Sins
2014
Animal
2009
The Naked and the Nude
1957
Five O'Clock Shadows
2016
Fragments
1967
Dreamsville
2014
Statue in the Park
1996
Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase
2005
A Dream of Roses
2008
Dumped!
2009
Lost Blues
2014
Seascape
1984
Litany of the Seven Kisses
2011
The Bristled Dagger
1996
Chromatic Effusion
2014
State of Mind
2007
Flesh and the Stars
2018
Pathways
2019
Swan Song
2009
Incantation
2007
Paradise Gone
2007
The Prayers of Cupie LaRue
2005
Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales
2009
Fur of the Field
1975
Angels We
2015
Fable for a New Age
1984
SoulMates
2013
Day Dreaming
2004
Broken Gods
2017
Starbound
2012
Sweet Dreams
2006
Tickled Pink
2012
Age of Anxiety
2015
Moon Lit Vows
2017
Heaven Cannot Hold Them
2004
Faraway Places
1972
The Tiger
2009
Splatter Movie
2011
Him in the Night
2019
The Pictures of Dorian Gray
1995
The Voice in the Man
2023
A Brief Summer’s Tale
2008
Peek-A-Boo
2008
Inspiration
2003
Variations
1968
Tootsies in Autumn
1963
The Vernal Zone
2008
Chasing Shadows
2014
NightScape
2017
The Dreamer’s Tale
2010
Fallen Angels
2013
Medusa’s Gaze
2010
The Stone Boy
2011
Tone Poem
1984
Celestial Murmurs
2006
Inward Bound
2019
Free Form Frolic
2011
Blue Vibrations
2014
Devil’s Den
2013
Scarlet Petals
2007
Wrestling with Angels
2015
A Midsummer's Nightmare
2008
Happy Birthday!
2013
The Season of Shadows and Flame
2018
Rat Nest
2014
Meat with Bones
2017
Cupid’s Infirmary
1995
The Faery Garden
2008
Street Meat
2018
Celestial Horizons
2019
Sunlit Sorcery
2022
A Widow's Web
1997
Acting · 46
Divine Trash
2000
Cinématon
1978
365 Day Project
2007
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
It Came from Kuchar
2009
Underground New York
1968
Cult of the Cubicles
1987
The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966
Oh Hi Anne
2017
Peed Into the Wind
1972
Galaxie
1966
An Evil Town
1995
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987
River Windows
1966
The Mammal Palace
1968
BIRD IN THE SKY
2005
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
1983
Corruption of the Damned
1965
Portrait of Ramona
1971
Beaver Fever
1974
Lust for Ecstasy
1964
Chronicles
1969
The Shadow Glass
1976
Magicman
1975
True Blue and Dreamy
1974
Seadrift
1976
The Unmentionables
2009
Bird, Bath and Beyond
2004
Confessions of Babette
1963
Award
1992
Return to the House of Pain
1988
Snow Beard
2010
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
1998
Sylvia’s Promise
1962
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
My Morning with Magic Mike
2023
The Creeping Crimson
1987
Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
1988
The Unclean
1967
Color Me Shameless
1967
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989
Urchins of Ungawa
1994
East by Southwest
1987