Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-08-31 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

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 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.

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Acting

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East by Southwest

2023

My Morning with Magic Mike as Self

2017

Oh Hi Anne as Himself

2010

Snow Beard

2009

It Came from Kuchar as Self

2007

365 Day Project

2006

Meet The Kuchar Brothers

2005

BIRD IN THE SKY as Grandfather

2004

Bird, Bath and Beyond as Self

2000

Divine Trash as Self

1998

Domain of the Pixel Pixies as Himself

1995

An Evil Town

1994

Urchins of Ungawa

1992

Award as Himself

1989		Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989		Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

1988		Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
1988		Return to the House of Pain as Self

1987		The Creeping Crimson
1987		Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987		Cult of the Cubicles as Himself

1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)

1983

George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground as Himself

1978

Cinématon as N°1085

1977

George and Mike Kuchar as Self

1976		Seadrift
1976		The Shadow Glass

1975

Magicman

1974		Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974		True Blue and Dreamy
1974		Beaver Fever

1972

Peed Into the Wind

1971

Portrait of Ramona

1969

Chronicles

1968		Underground New York as Self
1968		The Mammal Palace

1967		Color Me Shameless
1967		The Unclean as Himself

1966		Galaxie as Self
1966		The Secret of Wendel Samson as Wendel Samson (voice)
1966		River Windows

1965

Corruption of the Damned

1964

Lust for Ecstasy

1963

Confessions of Babette as Leonard

1962

Sylvia’s Promise

Camera

1990		Positive as Director of Photography
1990		Silence = Death as Director of Photography

Crew

1995

The Second Coming as Cinematography

1990		Life Is Like a Cucumber as Cinematography
1990		Kiss Napoleon Goodbye as Cinematography

1975

The Devil's Cleavage as Cinematography

1965

Sins of the Fleshapoids as Cinematography

Directing

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Tone Poem as Director

2024

Kuchar-esque as Director

2019		Celestial Horizons as Director
2019		Sunkissed as Director
2019		Pathways as Director
2019		Him in the Night as Director
2019		Inward Bound as Director

2018		Street Meat as Director
2018		Flesh and the Stars as Director
2018		The Season of Shadows and Flame as Director

2017		SoulSurfers as Director
2017		Soul Catcher as Director
2017		NightScape as Director
2017		Meat with Bones as Director
2017		Broken Gods as Director
2017		Keeper of Secrets as Director
2017		Moon Lit Vows as Director

2016		Dark Night of the Soul as Director
2016		Abstracted as Director
2016		Five O'Clock Shadows as Director

2015		Age of Anxiety as Director
2015		Angels We as Director
2015		The Breeze and Him as Director
2015		Boy in the Mirror as Director
2015		A Rented Space as Director
2015		Museum of Damaged Art as Director
2015		Wrestling with Angels as Director

2014		Blue Vibrations as Director
2014		Adam’s Apple as Director
2014		Coffee, Tea and Wizardry as Director
2014		Chromatic Effusion as Director
2014		Dreamsville as Director
2014		Summer Sins as Director
2014		Lost Blues as Director
2014		Soul Searchers as Director
2014		Chasing Shadows as Director
2014		Rat Nest as Director

2013		Ascension as Director
2013		The Dragon’s Son as Director
2013		Devil’s Den as Director
2013		Fallen Angels as Director
2013		SoulMates as Director
2013		Happy Birthday! as Director
2013		Happy Birthday! as Director

2012		Disordered as Director
2012		Tickled Pink as Director
2012		Meltdown as Director

2011		Litany of the Seven Kisses as Director
2011		The Stone Boy as Director
2011		Free Form Frolic as Director
2011		Splatter Movie as Director

2010		Echo’s Garden as Director
2010		Debbie and the Demons as Director
2010		The Dreamer’s Tale as Director
2010		Medusa’s Gaze as Director
2010		Opal Essence as Director

2009		Bedeviled as Director
2009		Ephemeral Seizure as Director
2009		Idyll as Director
2009		Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales as Director
2009		Dumped! as Director
2009		Swan Song as Director
2009		The Tiger as Director
2009		Animal as Director

2008		A Brief Summer’s Tale as Director
2008		A Dream of Roses as Director
2008		The Faery Garden as Director
2008		Song of the Seven Senses as Director
2008		Witchery as Director
2008		A Midsummer's Nightmare as Director
2008		The Vernal Zone as Director
2008		Peek-A-Boo as Director

2007		Vortex as Director
2007		State of Mind as Director
2007		Paradise Gone as Director
2007		Fruit of the Serpent as Director
2007		Scarlet Petals as Director
2007		Incantation as Director

2006		Celestial Murmurs as Director
2006		Zoology as Director
2006		A Poem for Summer as Director
2006		Haunted as Director
2006		Sweet Dreams as Director
2006		Midnight Mass as Director

2005		Atonement as Director
2005		NightRise as Director
2005		The Prayers of Cupie LaRue as Director
2005		In the Garden of Eros as Director
2005		Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase as Director

2004		Heaven Cannot Hold Them as Director
2004		Day Dreaming as Director
2004		Romance as Director

2003		Miss Philly’s Valentine as Director
2003		Inspiration as Director

2002		Shepherd’s Poem as Director
2002		Wind in My Sails as Director

2000		Boy Toys as Director
2000		Tryst as Director

1998

The Stranger in Apartment 9F as Director

1997		Candy Coated Evil as Director
1997		On a Shore Beneath the Sky as Director
1997		Purgatory Junction as Director
1997		A Widow's Web as Director

1996		The Bristled Dagger as Director
1996		Statue in the Park as Director

1995		Cupid’s Infirmary as Director
1995		The Pictures of Dorian Gray as Director

1994

Blue Banshee as Director

1984		Seascape as Director
1984		Fable for a new age as Director

1976

Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults as Director

1975		Bloodsucker as Director
1975		Fur of the Field as Director

1972		Didgeridoo as Director
1972		Faraway Places as Director

1970		Abode of the Snows as Director
1970		Tales of the Bronx as Director

1969

Chronicles as Director

1968

Variations as Director

1967		The Craven Sluck as Director
1967		Fragments as Director

1966		The Secret of Wendel Samson as Director
1966		Green Desire as Director

1965

Sins of the Fleshapoids as Director

1964

Born of the Wind as Director

1963		Tootsies in Autumn as Director
1963		Confessions of Babette as Director

1962

Night of the Bomb as Director

1961		Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof as Director
1961		A Reel of Home Movies as Director

1960

I Was a Teenage Rumpot as Director

1959

The Thief and the Stripper as Director

1958

The Slasher as Director

1957

The Naked and the Nude as Director

1956

A Tub Named Desire as Director

Editing

1965

Sins of the Fleshapoids as Editor

Production

1965

Sins of the Fleshapoids as Producer

Writing

2024

Kuchar-esque as Writer

2009		Swan Song as Writer
2009		Dumped! as Writer

1967

The Craven Sluck as Writer

1965

Sins of the Fleshapoids as Writer