MIKE KUCHAR

Mike Kuchar
Mike Kuchar
Gender: Male
Known for: Directing
Birthday: August 31, 1942
Place of Birth: New York, New York

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.

Filmography

Starring

2023·
My Morning with Magic Mike
Self
2017·
Oh Hi Anne
Himself
2010·
Snow Beard
2009·
The Unmentionables
2009·
It Came from Kuchar
Self
2007·
365 Day Project
2006·
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2005·
BIRD IN THE SKY
Grandfather
2004·
Bird, Bath and Beyond
Self
2000·
Divine Trash
Self
1998·
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
Himself
1995·
An Evil Town
1994·
Urchins of Ungawa
1992·
Award
Himself
1989·
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989·
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1988·
Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
1988·
Return to the House of Pain
Self
1987·
Cult of the Cubicles
Himself
1987·
The Creeping Crimson
1987·
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987·
East by Southwest
1986·
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1983·
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
Himself
1978·
Cinématon
N°1085
1977·
George and Mike Kuchar
Self
1976·
The Shadow Glass
1976·
Seadrift
1975·
Magicman
1974·
Beaver Fever
1974·
True Blue and Dreamy
1974·
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1972·
Peed Into the Wind
1971·
Portrait of Ramona
1969·
Chronicles
1968·
The Mammal Palace
1968·
Underground New York
Self
1967·
Color Me Shameless
1967·
The Unclean
Himself
1966·
The Secret of Wendel Samson
Wendel Samson (voice)
1966·
Galaxie
Self
1966·
River Windows
1965·
Corruption of the Damned
1964·
Lust for Ecstasy
1963·
Confessions of Babette
Leonard
1962·
Sylvia’s Promise

Production

2024·
Kuchar-esque
Director, Writer
2023·
The Voice in the Man
Director
2022·
Sunlit Sorcery
Director
2019·
Pathways
Director
2019·
Him in the Night
Director
2019·
Inward Bound
Director
2019·
Sunkissed
Director
2019·
Celestial Horizons
Director
2018·
Flesh and the Stars
Director
2018·
The Season of Shadows and Flame
Director
2018·
Street Meat
Director
2017·
Keeper of Secrets
Director
2017·
Broken Gods
Director
2017·
Moon Lit Vows
Director
2017·
NightScape
Director
2017·
Meat with Bones
Director
2017·
Soul Catcher
Director
2017·
SoulSurfers
Director
2016·
Dark Night of the Soul
Director
2016·
Abstracted
Director
2016·
Five O'Clock Shadows
Director
2015·
Wrestling with Angels
Director
2015·
The Breeze and Him
Director
2015·
Boy in the Mirror
Director
2015·
Angels We
Director
2015·
Age of Anxiety
Director
2015·
A Rented Space
Director
2015·
Museum of Damaged Art
Director
2014·
Rat Nest
Director
2014·
Soul Searchers
Director
2014·
Summer Sins
Director
2014·
Dreamsville
Director
2014·
Coffee, Tea and Wizardry
Director
2014·
Chromatic Effusion
Director
2014·
Adam’s Apple
Director
2014·
Chasing Shadows
Director
2014·
Lost Blues
Director
2014·
Blue Vibrations
Director
2013·
Happy Birthday!
Director, Director
2013·
Fallen Angels
Director
2013·
The Dragon’s Son
Director
2013·
Devil’s Den
Director
2013·
Ascension
Director
2013·
SoulMates
Director
2012·
Starbound
Director
2012·
Meltdown
Director
2012·
Disordered
Director
2012·
Tickled Pink
Director
2011·
Splatter Movie
Director
2011·
The Stone Boy
Director
2011·
Free Form Frolic
Director
2011·
Litany of the Seven Kisses
Director
2010·
Opal Essence
Director
2010·
Medusa’s Gaze
Director
2010·
Echo’s Garden
Director
2010·
The Dreamer’s Tale
Director
2010·
Debbie and the Demons
Director
2009·
Animal
Director
2009·
Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales
Director
2009·
Idyll
Director
2009·
Ephemeral Seizure
Director
2009·
Bedeviled
Director
2009·
The Tiger
Director
2009·
Swan Song
Writer, Director
2009·
Dumped!
Writer, Director
2008·
A Midsummer's Nightmare
Director
2008·
Peek-A-Boo
Director
2008·
Witchery
Director
2008·
Song of the Seven Senses
Director
2008·
The Faery Garden
Director
2008·
A Dream of Roses
Director
2008·
A Brief Summer’s Tale
Director
2008·
The Vernal Zone
Director
2007·
State of Mind
Director
2007·
Scarlet Petals
Director
2007·
Paradise Gone
Director
2007·
Fruit of the Serpent
Director
2007·
Incantation
Director
2007·
Vortex
Director
2006·
Midnight Mass
Director
2006·
Zoology
Director
2006·
A Poem for Summer
Director
2006·
Haunted
Director
2006·
Celestial Murmurs
Director
2006·
Sweet Dreams
Director
2005·
The Prayers of Cupie LaRue
Director
2005·
NightRise
Director
2005·
In the Garden of Eros
Director
2005·
Atonement
Director
2005·
Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase
Director
2004·
Heaven Cannot Hold Them
Director
2004·
Romance
Director
2004·
Day Dreaming
Director
2003·
Inspiration
Director
2003·
Miss Philly’s Valentine
Director
2002·
Wind in My Sails
Director
2002·
Shepherd’s Poem
Director
2000·
Tryst
Director
2000·
Boy Toys
Director
1998·
The Stranger in Apartment 9F
Director
1997·
A Widow's Web
Director
1997·
On a Shore Beneath the Sky
Director
1997·
Candy Coated Evil
Director
1997·
Purgatory Junction
Director
1996·
Statue in the Park
Director
1996·
The Bristled Dagger
Director
1995·
The Pictures of Dorian Gray
Director
1995·
The Second Coming
Cinematography
1995·
Cupid’s Infirmary
Director
1994·
Blue Banshee
Director
1990·
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
Cinematography
1990·
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Cinematography
1990·
Silence = Death
Director of Photography
1990·
Positive
Director of Photography
1984·
Tone Poem
Director
1984·
Fable for a New Age
Director
1984·
Seascape
Director
1976·
Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults
Director
1975·
Fur of the Field
Director
1975·
Bloodsucker
Director
1975·
The Devil's Cleavage
Cinematography
1972·
Faraway Places
Director
1972·
Didgeridoo
Director
1970·
Tales of the Bronx
Director
1970·
Abode of the Snows
Director
1969·
Chronicles
Director
1968·
Variations
Director
1967·
Fragments
Director
1967·
The Craven Sluck
Writer, Director
1966·
The Secret of Wendel Samson
Director
1966·
Green Desire
Director
1965·
Sins of the Fleshapoids
Producer, Writer, Editor, Cinematography, Director
1964·
Born of the Wind
Director
1963·
Confessions of Babette
Director
1963·
Tootsies in Autumn
Director
1962·
Night of the Bomb
Director
1961·
A Reel of Home Movies
Director
1961·
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
Director
1960·
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
Director
1959·
The Thief and the Stripper
Director
1958·
The Slasher
Director
1957·
The Naked and the Nude
Director
1956·
A Tub Named Desire
Director