Mike Kuchar
Known for: Directing
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.
Filmography
Film
365 Day Project
Self
2007
Film
It Came from Kuchar
Self
2009
Film
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986
Film
Seadrift
1976
Film
Divine Trash
Self
2000
Film
Cinématon
N°1085
1978
Magicman
1975
Film
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974
Film
The Secret of Wendel Samson
Wendel Samson (voice)
1966
Film
My Morning with Magic Mike
Self
2023
Film
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989
Film
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
The Mammal Palace
1968
George and Mike Kuchar
Self
1977
Film
Underground New York
Self
1968
Film
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987
Film
BIRD IN THE SKY
Grandfather
2005
Bird, Bath and Beyond
Self
2004
Film
Cult of the Cubicles
Himself
1987
Film
The Creeping Crimson
1987
Snow Beard
2010
Film
Corruption of the Damned
1965
Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
1988
Film
Peed Into the Wind
1972
Confessions of Babette
Leonard
1963
Film
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989
Film
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
Himself
1983
Film
True Blue and Dreamy
1974
Film
River Windows
1966
Film
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
Himself
1998
Film
Galaxie
Self
1966
Film
An Evil Town
1995
A Big Ass Lust for Speed
mysterious man
2001
Film
Oh Hi Anne
Himself
2017
Film
Color Me Shameless
1967
Film
The Unmentionables
2009
Lust for Ecstasy
1964
Film
The Shadow Glass
1976
Return to the House of Pain
Self
1988
Film
Award
Himself
1992
East by Southwest
1987
Film
Portrait of Ramona
1971
Sylvia’s Promise
1962
The Unclean
Himself
1967
Film
Beaver Fever
1974
Film
Urchins of Ungawa
1994
Film
Chronicles
1969