Directing

Mike Kuchar

Born 1942-08-31

New York, New York

Department: Directing

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.

1990

TMDB2.5

Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (199 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Kuchar-esque	Writer	Movie	2024
Kuchar-esque	Director	Movie	2024
My Morning with Magic Mike	Self	Movie	2023
The Voice in the Man	Director	Movie	2023
Sunlit Sorcery	Director	Movie	2022
Celestial Horizons	Director	Movie	2019
Pathways	Director	Movie	2019
Sunkissed	Director	Movie	2019
Inward Bound	Director	Movie	2019
Him in the Night	Director	Movie	2019
Street Meat	Director	Movie	2018
The Season of Shadows and Flame	Director	Movie	2018
Flesh and the Stars	Director	Movie	2018
SoulSurfers	Director	Movie	2017
NightScape	Director	Movie	2017
Oh Hi Anne	Himself	Movie	2017
Soul Catcher	Director	Movie	2017
Meat with Bones	Director	Movie	2017
Broken Gods	Director	Movie	2017
Moon Lit Vows	Director	Movie	2017
Keeper of Secrets	Director	Movie	2017
Dark Night of the Soul	Director	Movie	2016
Abstracted	Director	Movie	2016
Five O'Clock Shadows	Director	Movie	2016
Age of Anxiety	Director	Movie	2015
Boy in the Mirror	Director	Movie	2015
Angels We	Director	Movie	2015
The Breeze and Him	Director	Movie	2015
A Rented Space	Director	Movie	2015
Museum of Damaged Art	Director	Movie	2015
Wrestling with Angels	Director	Movie	2015
Blue Vibrations	Director	Movie	2014
Chromatic Effusion	Director	Movie	2014
Adam’s Apple	Director	Movie	2014
Coffee, Tea and Wizardry	Director	Movie	2014
Dreamsville	Director	Movie	2014
Summer Sins	Director	Movie	2014
Lost Blues	Director	Movie	2014
Soul Searchers	Director	Movie	2014
Chasing Shadows	Director	Movie	2014
Rat Nest	Director	Movie	2014
Ascension	Director	Movie	2013
The Dragon’s Son	Director	Movie	2013
Fallen Angels	Director	Movie	2013
Devil’s Den	Director	Movie	2013
SoulMates	Director	Movie	2013
Happy Birthday!	Director	Movie	2013
Happy Birthday!	Director	Movie	2013
Disordered	Director	Movie	2012
Tickled Pink	Director	Movie	2012
Meltdown	Director	Movie	2012
Starbound	Director	Movie	2012
Litany of the Seven Kisses	Director	Movie	2011
Free Form Frolic	Director	Movie	2011
The Stone Boy	Director	Movie	2011
Splatter Movie	Director	Movie	2011
Debbie and the Demons	Director	Movie	2010
Echo’s Garden	Director	Movie	2010
The Dreamer’s Tale	Director	Movie	2010
Opal Essence	Director	Movie	2010
Medusa’s Gaze	Director	Movie	2010
Snow Beard	Self / Appearance	Movie	2010
It Came from Kuchar	Self	Movie	2009
Bedeviled	Director	Movie	2009
Ephemeral Seizure	Director	Movie	2009
Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales	Director	Movie	2009
Idyll	Director	Movie	2009
The Unmentionables	Self / Appearance	Movie	2009
Dumped!	Director	Movie	2009
Dumped!	Writer	Movie	2009
Swan Song	Writer	Movie	2009
Swan Song	Director	Movie	2009
The Tiger	Director	Movie	2009
Animal	Director	Movie	2009
A Brief Summer’s Tale	Director	Movie	2008
The Faery Garden	Director	Movie	2008
A Dream of Roses	Director	Movie	2008
Song of the Seven Senses	Director	Movie	2008
Witchery	Director	Movie	2008
A Midsummer's Nightmare	Director	Movie	2008
The Vernal Zone	Director	Movie	2008
Peek-A-Boo	Director	Movie	2008
365 Day Project	Self	Movie	2007
Vortex	Director	Movie	2007
State of Mind	Director	Movie	2007
Paradise Gone	Director	Movie	2007
Scarlet Petals	Director	Movie	2007
Fruit of the Serpent	Director	Movie	2007
Incantation	Director	Movie	2007
Celestial Murmurs	Director	Movie	2006
A Poem for Summer	Director	Movie	2006
Haunted	Director	Movie	2006
Zoology	Director	Movie	2006
Meet The Kuchar Brothers	Self / Appearance	Movie	2006
Sweet Dreams	Director	Movie	2006
Midnight Mass	Director	Movie	2006
Atonement	Director	Movie	2005
NightRise	Director	Movie	2005
In the Garden of Eros	Director	Movie	2005
The Prayers of Cupie LaRue	Director	Movie	2005
BIRD IN THE SKY	Grandfather	Movie	2005
Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase	Director	Movie	2005
Heaven Cannot Hold Them	Director	Movie	2004
Day Dreaming	Director	Movie	2004
Romance	Director	Movie	2004
Bird, Bath and Beyond	Self	Movie	2004
Miss Philly’s Valentine	Director	Movie	2003
Inspiration	Director	Movie	2003
Shepherd’s Poem	Director	Movie	2002
Wind in My Sails	Director	Movie	2002
A Big Ass Lust for Speed	mysterious man	Movie	2001
Boy Toys	Director	Movie	2000
Divine Trash	Self	Movie	2000
Tryst	Director	Movie	2000
The Stranger in Apartment 9F	Director	Movie	1998
Domain of the Pixel Pixies	Himself	Movie	1998
Candy Coated Evil	Director	Movie	1997
On a Shore Beneath the Sky	Director	Movie	1997
Purgatory Junction	Director	Movie	1997
A Widow's Web	Director	Movie	1997
The Bristled Dagger	Director	Movie	1996
Statue in the Park	Director	Movie	1996
The Second Coming	Cinematography	Movie	1995
Cupid’s Infirmary	Director	Movie	1995
The Pictures of Dorian Gray	Director	Movie	1995
An Evil Town	Self / Appearance	Movie	1995
Blue Banshee	Director	Movie	1994
Urchins of Ungawa	Self / Appearance	Movie	1994
Award	Himself	Movie	1992
Life Is Like a Cucumber	Cinematography	Movie	1990
Positive	Director of Photography	Movie	1990
Silence = Death	Director of Photography	Movie	1990
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye	Cinematography	Movie	1990
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s	Self / Appearance	Movie	1989
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness	Self / Appearance	Movie	1989
Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar	Self / Appearance	Movie	1988
Return to the House of Pain	Self	Movie	1988
The Creeping Crimson	Self / Appearance	Movie	1987
East by Southwest	Self / Appearance	Movie	1987
Video Album 5: The Thursday People	Self / Appearance	Movie	1987
Cult of the Cubicles	Himself	Movie	1987
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life	Self (archive footage)	Movie	1986
Seascape	Director	Movie	1984
Fable for a New Age	Director	Movie	1984
Tone Poem	Director	Movie	1984
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground	Himself	Movie	1983
Cinématon	N°1085	Movie	1978
George and Mike Kuchar	Self	Movie	1977
The Shadow Glass	Self / Appearance	Movie	1976
Seadrift	Self / Appearance	Movie	1976
Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults	Director	Movie	1976
The Devil's Cleavage	Cinematography	Movie	1975
Bloodsucker	Director	Movie	1975
Magicman	Self / Appearance	Movie	1975
Fur of the Field	Director	Movie	1975
Nudes: A Sketchbook	Self / Appearance	Movie	1974
True Blue and Dreamy	Self / Appearance	Movie	1974
Beaver Fever	Self / Appearance	Movie	1974
Didgeridoo	Director	Movie	1972
Peed Into the Wind	Self / Appearance	Movie	1972
Faraway Places	Director	Movie	1972
Portrait of Ramona	Self / Appearance	Movie	1971
Abode of the Snows	Director	Movie	1970
Tales of the Bronx	Director	Movie	1970
Chronicles	Self / Appearance	Movie	1969
Chronicles	Director	Movie	1969
Variations	Director	Movie	1968
Underground New York	Self	Movie	1968
The Mammal Palace	Self / Appearance	Movie	1968
Color Me Shameless	Self / Appearance	Movie	1967
The Craven Sluck	Writer	Movie	1967
The Craven Sluck	Director	Movie	1967
Fragments	Director	Movie	1967
The Unclean	Himself	Movie	1967
Galaxie	Self	Movie	1966
The Secret of Wendel Samson	Wendel Samson (voice)	Movie	1966
The Secret of Wendel Samson	Director	Movie	1966
River Windows	Self / Appearance	Movie	1966
Green Desire	Director	Movie	1966
Corruption of the Damned	Self / Appearance	Movie	1965
Sins of the Fleshapoids	Director	Movie	1965
Sins of the Fleshapoids	Producer	Movie	1965
Sins of the Fleshapoids	Writer	Movie	1965
Sins of the Fleshapoids	Editor	Movie	1965
Sins of the Fleshapoids	Director of Photography	Movie	1965
Lust for Ecstasy	Self / Appearance	Movie	1964
Born of the Wind	Director	Movie	1964
Tootsies in Autumn	Director	Movie	1963
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof	Director	Movie	1963
Confessions of Babette	Leonard	Movie	1963
Confessions of Babette	Director	Movie	1963
Sylvia’s Promise	Self / Appearance	Movie	1962
Night of the Bomb	Director	Movie	1962
A Reel of Home Movies	Director	Movie	1961
I Was a Teenage Rumpot	Director	Movie	1960
The Thief and the Stripper	Director	Movie	1959
The Slasher	Director	Movie	1958
The Naked and the Nude	Director	Movie	1957
A Tub Named Desire	Director	Movie	1956