Mike Kuchar
Directing • Born 1942-08-31
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.
Filmography
46 credits
Seadrift
Movie • 1976
The Shadow Glass
Movie • 1976
River Windows
Movie • 1966
George and Mike Kuchar
Movie • 1977
Self
Nudes: A Sketchbook
Movie • 1974
Peed Into the Wind
Movie • 1972
My Morning with Magic Mike
Movie • 2023
Self
Return to the House of Pain
Movie • 1988
Self
Galaxie
Movie • 1966
Self
Underground New York
Movie • 1968
Self
The Unclean
Movie • 1967
Himself
Color Me Shameless
Movie • 1967
Snow Beard
Movie • 2010
East by Southwest
Movie • 1987
True Blue and Dreamy
Movie • 1974
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
Movie • 1987
365 Day Project
Movie • 2007
Self
Confessions of Babette
Movie • 1963
Leonard
Lust for Ecstasy
Movie • 1964
Corruption of the Damned
Movie • 1965
Sylvia’s Promise
Movie • 1962
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
Movie • 1983
Himself
An Evil Town
Movie • 1995
Divine Trash
Movie • 2000
Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
It Came from Kuchar
Movie • 2009
Self
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
Movie • 2006
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
Movie • 1989
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
Movie • 1989
The Secret of Wendel Samson
Movie • 1966
Wendel Samson (voice)
Portrait of Ramona
Movie • 1971
Urchins of Ungawa
Movie • 1994
Bird, Bath and Beyond
Movie • 2004
Self
The Creeping Crimson
Movie • 1987
Oh Hi Anne
Movie • 2017
Himself
Beaver Fever
Movie • 1974
Chronicles
Movie • 1969
Cinématon
Movie • 1978
N°1085
The Mammal Palace
Movie • 1968
Cult of the Cubicles
Movie • 1987
Himself
Award
Movie • 1992
Himself
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
Movie • 1998
Himself
Magicman
Movie • 1975
Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
Movie • 1988
BIRD IN THE SKY
Movie • 2005
Grandfather
The Unmentionables
Movie • 2009