Mike Kuchar

Known for: Directing
Born: August 31, 1942, New York, New York
Movies: 185

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.3

Divine Trash

2000

6.1

Sins of the Fleshapoids

1965

7.2

It Came from Kuchar

2009

6.1

The Craven Sluck

1967

8.4

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

1986

5.0

The Secret of Wendel Samson

1966

5.4

An Evil Town

1995

4.9

Cinématon

1978

7.8

George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

1983

5.5

Born of the Wind

1964

Filmography

2023	My Morning with Magic Mike	Self
2017	Oh Hi Anne	Himself
2010	Snow Beard
2009	It Came from Kuchar	Self
2009	The Unmentionables
2007	365 Day Project	Self
2006	Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2005	BIRD IN THE SKY	Grandfather
2004	Bird, Bath and Beyond	Self
2001	A Big Ass Lust for Speed	mysterious man
2000	Divine Trash	Self
1998	Domain of the Pixel Pixies	Himself
1995	An Evil Town
1994	Urchins of Ungawa
1992	Award	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	Self
1987	The Creeping Crimson
1987	East by Southwest
1987	Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987	Cult of the Cubicles	Himself
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	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	Self
1968	The Mammal Palace
1967	Color Me Shameless
1967	The Unclean	Himself
1966	Galaxie	Self
1966	The Secret of Wendel Samson	Wendel Samson (voice)
1966	River Windows
1965	Corruption of the Damned
1964	Lust for Ecstasy
1963	Confessions of Babette	Leonard
1962	Sylvia’s Promise

Directing, Writing & Producing

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

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