Mike Kuchar

Personal Info

Known For Director

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.

Known For

Director

Tone Poem

as Director

2024
Kuchar-esque

as Director

2019
Celestial Horizons

as Director

2019
Pathways

as Director

2019
Sunkissed

as Director

2019
Inward Bound

as Director

2019
Him in the Night

as Director

2018
Street Meat

as Director

2018
2017
Soul Catcher

as Director

2017
SoulSurfers

as Director

2017
Meat with Bones

as Director

2017
NightScape

as Director

2017
Broken Gods

as Director

2017
Moon Lit Vows

as Director

2017
Keeper of Secrets

as Director

2016
2016
Abstracted

as Director

2016
2015
2015
A Rented Space

as Director

2015
Age of Anxiety

as Director

2015
Boy in the Mirror

as Director

2015
Angels We

as Director

2015
The Breeze and Him

as Director

2015
2014
Blue Vibrations

as Director

2014
Chasing Shadows

as Director

2014
Lost Blues

as Director

2014
Chromatic Effusion

as Director

2014
Adam’s Apple

as Director

2014
2014
Dreamsville

as Director

2014
Summer Sins

as Director

2014
Soul Searchers

as Director

2014
Rat Nest

as Director

2013
SoulMates

as Director

2013
Ascension

as Director

2013
The Dragon’s Son

as Director

2013
Fallen Angels

as Director

2013
Devil’s Den

as Director

2013
Happy Birthday!

as Director

2013
Happy Birthday!

as Director

2012
Tickled Pink

as Director

2012
Disordered

as Director

2012
Meltdown

as Director

2011
Free Form Frolic

as Director

2011
The Stone Boy

as Director

2011
Splatter Movie

as Director

2010
2010
Echo’s Garden

as Director

2010
2010
Opal Essence

as Director

2010
Medusa’s Gaze

as Director

2009
Dumped!

as Director

2009
Swan Song

as Director

2009
The Tiger

as Director

2009
Bedeviled

as Director

2009
Ephemeral Seizure

as Director

2009
Idyll

as Director

2009
Animal

as Director

2008
The Vernal Zone

as Director

2008
2008
The Faery Garden

as Director

2008
A Dream of Roses

as Director

2008
2008
Witchery

as Director

2008
Peek-A-Boo

as Director

2008
2007
Incantation

as Director

2007
Vortex

as Director

2007
State of Mind

as Director

2007
Paradise Gone

as Director

2007
Scarlet Petals

as Director

2007
2006
Sweet Dreams

as Director

2006
Celestial Murmurs

as Director

2006
A Poem for Summer

as Director

2006
Haunted

as Director

2006
Zoology

as Director

2006
Midnight Mass

as Director

2005
Atonement

as Director

2005
NightRise

as Director

2005
2004
Day Dreaming

as Director

2004
Romance

as Director

2004
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

1997
Purgatory Junction

as Director

1997
Candy Coated Evil

as Director

1997
A Widow's Web

as Director

1996
1996
Statue in the Park

as Director

1995
1994
Blue Banshee

as Director

1984
Seascape

as Director

1984
1975
Bloodsucker

as Director

1975
Fur of the Field

as Director

1972
Didgeridoo

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
Green Desire

as Director

1965
1964
Born of the Wind

as Director

1963
Tootsies in Autumn

as Director

1963
1962
Night of the Bomb

as Director

1961
1961
1960
1958
The Slasher

as Director

1957
1956
A Tub Named Desire

as Director

Writer

2024
Kuchar-esque

as Writer

2009
Dumped!

as Writer

2009
Swan Song

as Writer

1967

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

Camera

1990
Positive

as Director of Photography

1990
Silence = Death

as Director of Photography

Producer

1965

Editor