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Mike Kuchar

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.

Et billede af Mike Kuchar

Directing

1956

[ ] A Tub Named Desire (Director)

1957

[ ] The Naked and the Nude (Director)

1958

[ ] The Slasher (Director)

1959

[ ] The Thief and the Stripper (Director)

1960

[ ] I Was a Teenage Rumpot (Director)

1961

[ ] A Reel of Home Movies (Director)

1962

[ ] Night of the Bomb (Director)

1963

[ ] Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof (Director)
[ ] Tootsies in Autumn (Director)
[ ] Confessions of Babette (Director)

1964

[ ] Born of the Wind (Director)

1965

[ ] Sins of the Fleshapoids (Director)

1966

[ ] Green Desire (Director)
[ ] The Secret of Wendel Samson (Director)

1967

[ ] The Craven Sluck (Director)
[ ] Fragments (Director)

1968

[ ] Variations (Director)

1969

[ ] Chronicles (Director)

1970

[ ] Abode of the Snows (Director)
[ ] Tales of the Bronx (Director)

1972

[ ] Didgeridoo (Director)
[ ] Faraway Places (Director)

1975

[ ] Bloodsucker (Director)
[ ] Fur of the Field (Director)

1976

[ ] Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults (Director)

1984

[ ] Seascape (Director)
[ ] Fable for a New Age (Director)
[ ] Tone Poem (Director)

1994

[ ] Blue Banshee (Director)

1995

[ ] Cupid’s Infirmary (Director)
[ ] The Pictures of Dorian Gray (Director)

1996

[ ] The Bristled Dagger (Director)
[ ] Statue in the Park (Director)

1997

[ ] Purgatory Junction (Director)
[ ] Candy Coated Evil (Director)
[ ] On a Shore Beneath the Sky (Director)
[ ] A Widow's Web (Director)

1998

[ ] The Stranger in Apartment 9F (Director)

2000

[ ] Boy Toys (Director)
[ ] Tryst (Director)

2002

[ ] Shepherd’s Poem (Director)
[ ] Wind in My Sails (Director)

2003

[ ] Miss Philly’s Valentine (Director)
[ ] Inspiration (Director)

2004

[ ] Day Dreaming (Director)
[ ] Romance (Director)
[ ] Heaven Cannot Hold Them (Director)

2005

[ ] Atonement (Director)
[ ] Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase (Director)
[ ] NightRise (Director)
[ ] In the Garden of Eros (Director)
[ ] The Prayers of Cupie LaRue (Director)

2006

[ ] Sweet Dreams (Director)
[ ] Celestial Murmurs (Director)
[ ] A Poem for Summer (Director)
[ ] Haunted (Director)
[ ] Zoology (Director)
[ ] Midnight Mass (Director)

2007

[ ] Incantation (Director)
[ ] Vortex (Director)
[ ] State of Mind (Director)
[ ] Paradise Gone (Director)
[ ] Scarlet Petals (Director)
[ ] Fruit of the Serpent (Director)

2008

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

2009

[ ] Dumped! (Director)
[ ] Swan Song (Director)
[ ] The Tiger (Director)
[ ] Bedeviled (Director)
[ ] Ephemeral Seizure (Director)
[ ] Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales (Director)
[ ] Idyll (Director)
[ ] Animal (Director)

2010

[ ] Debbie and the Demons (Director)
[ ] Echo’s Garden (Director)
[ ] The Dreamer’s Tale (Director)
[ ] Opal Essence (Director)
[ ] Medusa’s Gaze (Director)

2011

[ ] Litany of the Seven Kisses (Director)
[ ] Free Form Frolic (Director)
[ ] The Stone Boy (Director)
[ ] Splatter Movie (Director)

2012

[ ] Tickled Pink (Director)
[ ] Disordered (Director)
[ ] Meltdown (Director)
[ ] Starbound (Director)

2013

[ ] SoulMates (Director)
[ ] Ascension (Director)
[ ] The Dragon’s Son (Director)
[ ] Fallen Angels (Director)
[ ] Devil’s Den (Director)
[ ] Happy Birthday! (Director)
[ ] Happy Birthday! (Director)

2014

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

2015

[ ] Museum of Damaged Art (Director)
[ ] A Rented Space (Director)
[ ] Age of Anxiety (Director)
[ ] Boy in the Mirror (Director)
[ ] Angels We (Director)
[ ] The Breeze and Him (Director)
[ ] Wrestling with Angels (Director)

2016

[ ] Five O'Clock Shadows (Director)
[ ] Abstracted (Director)
[ ] Dark Night of the Soul (Director)

2017

[ ] Soul Catcher (Director)
[ ] SoulSurfers (Director)
[ ] Meat with Bones (Director)
[ ] NightScape (Director)
[ ] Broken Gods (Director)
[ ] Moon Lit Vows (Director)
[ ] Keeper of Secrets (Director)

2018

[ ] Street Meat (Director)
[ ] The Season of Shadows and Flame (Director)
[ ] Flesh and the Stars (Director)

2019

[ ] Celestial Horizons (Director)
[ ] Pathways (Director)
[ ] Sunkissed (Director)
[ ] Inward Bound (Director)
[ ] Him in the Night (Director)

2022

[ ] Sunlit Sorcery (Director)

2023

[ ] The Voice in the Man (Director)

2024

[ ] Kuchar-esque (Director)

Writing

1965

[ ] Sins of the Fleshapoids (Writer)

1967

[ ] The Craven Sluck (Writer)

2009

[ ] Dumped! (Writer)
[ ] Swan Song (Writer)

2024

[ ] Kuchar-esque (Writer)

Crew

1965

[ ] Sins of the Fleshapoids (Cinematography)

1975

[ ] The Devil's Cleavage (Cinematography)

1990

[ ] Life Is Like a Cucumber (Cinematography)
[ ] Kiss Napoleon Goodbye (Cinematography)

1995

[ ] The Second Coming (Cinematography)

Camera

1990

[ ] Positive (Director of Photography)
[ ] Silence = Death (Director of Photography)

Production

1965

[ ] Sins of the Fleshapoids (Producer)

Editing

1965

[ ] Sins of the Fleshapoids (Editor)

Actor

1962

[ ] Sylvia’s Promise (????)

1963

[ ] Confessions of Babette (Leonard)

1964

[ ] Lust for Ecstasy (????)

1965

[ ] Corruption of the Damned (????)

1966

[ ] River Windows (????)
[ ] Galaxie (Self)
[ ] The Secret of Wendel Samson (Wendel Samson (voice))

1967

[ ] The Unclean (Himself)
[ ] Color Me Shameless (????)

1968

[ ] Underground New York (Self)
[ ] The Mammal Palace (????)

1969

[ ] Chronicles (????)

1971

[ ] Portrait of Ramona (????)

1972

[ ] Peed Into the Wind (????)

1974

[ ] Nudes: A Sketchbook (????)
[ ] True Blue and Dreamy (????)
[ ] Beaver Fever (????)

1975

[ ] Magicman (????)

1976

[ ] The Shadow Glass (????)
[ ] Seadrift (????)

1977

[ ] George and Mike Kuchar (Self)

1978

[ ] Cinématon (N°1085)

1983

[ ] George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground (Himself)

1986

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

1987

[ ] East by Southwest (????)
[ ] Video Album 5: The Thursday People (????)
[ ] The Creeping Crimson (????)
[ ] Cult of the Cubicles (Himself)

1988

[ ] Return to the House of Pain (Self)
[ ] Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar (????)

1989

[ ] Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s (????)
[ ] Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness (????)

1992

[ ] Award (Himself)

1994

[ ] Urchins of Ungawa (????)

1995

[ ] An Evil Town (????)

1998

[ ] Domain of the Pixel Pixies (Himself)

2000

[ ] Divine Trash (Self)

2004

[ ] Bird, Bath and Beyond (Self)

2005

[ ] BIRD IN THE SKY (Grandfather)

2006

[ ] Meet The Kuchar Brothers (????)

2007

[ ] 365 Day Project (Self)

2009

[ ] It Came from Kuchar (Self)
[ ] The Unmentionables (????)

2010

[ ] Snow Beard (????)

2017

[ ] Oh Hi Anne (Himself)

2023

[ ] My Morning with Magic Mike (Self)