Mike Olenick

Personal Info

Known For Editor

Gender Male

Mike Olenick

Biography

Mike Olenick makes perverse genre films focused on photography, forbidden desire, reproduction, transformation, memories, and outer space. His films have screened at Fantastic Fest and Fantasia, streamed on MUBI, played on Dutch television, and have won awards at the Slamdance Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Cinematexas, Big Muddy Film Festival, and Nightmares Film Festival, among others. In 2016 he was one of the inaugural fellows at Shudder Labs, where he developed a script for a sci-fi / horror feature. Mike has worked as an editor of projects for Guy Maddin (including The Forbidden Room and Keyhole), Michael Robinson, Kelly Reichardt, the Quay Brothers, Lucy Raven, and Sadie Benning. Since 2003 he has edited numerous works for Jennifer Reeder, including A Million Miles Away, Blood Below the Skin, and Knives and Skin. Works he's edited are in the collections of MoMA and the Tate. Mike received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art with an emphasis in Photography and a BFA in Media Studies from the Columbus College of Art & Design. He was a fashion “do” in Vice Magazine and his love of cats has been documented on Buzzfeed. When he is not putting together a jigsaw puzzle or drawing cats he is working on the script for a sci-fi / soap opera / thriller.

Known For

Editor

2024
2024
Gary

as Editor

2021
They/Them/Us

as Editor

2019
Knives and Skin

as Editor

2017
2017
Shuvit

as Editor

2017
The Cure

as Editor

2017
Lola, 15

as Editor

2016
2016
Crystal Lake

as Editor

2015
2014
2013
2013
2005
Uyuni

as Editor

2004
Travis

as Editor

2004

Camera

2024
Please Be Tender

as Director of Photography

2017
The Cure

as Director of Photography

2014
A Million Miles Away

as Director of Photography

2013
Girls Love Horses

as Director of Photography

2011
2010
Seven Songs About Thunder

as Director of Photography

Director

2024
Please Be Tender

as Director

2017
The Cure

as Director

2014
Red Luck

as Director

Producer

Actor

2014
Red Luck

as Red Luck

2014
Red Luck

as The Photographer

2014
Red Luck

as Male Victim

Writer

2024
2017
The Cure

as Writer