Mike Kuchar

Birthday: 1942-08-31
Birthplace: New York, New York
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
Tone Poem
2024-06-16 Kuchar-esque
2019-08-30 Celestial Horizons
2019-01-01 Pathways
2019-01-01 Sunkissed
2019-01-01 Inward Bound
2019-01-01 Him in the Night
2018-05-05 Street Meat
2018-01-01 The Season of Shadows and Flame
2018-01-01 Flesh and the Stars
2017-06-02 SoulSurfers
2017-01-01 Soul Catcher
2017-01-01 Meat with Bones
2017-01-01 NightScape
2017-01-01 Broken Gods
2017-01-01 Moon Lit Vows
2017-01-01 Keeper of Secrets
2016-08-31 Dark Night of the Soul
2016-03-10 Abstracted
2016-01-01 Five O'Clock Shadows
2015-08-31 Age of Anxiety
2015-08-31 Boy in the Mirror
2015-08-31 Angels We
2015-08-31 The Breeze and Him
2015-02-04 A Rented Space
2015-01-01 Museum of Damaged Art
2015-01-01 Wrestling with Angels
2014-11-04 Blue Vibrations
2014-08-31 Chromatic Effusion
2014-08-31 Adam’s Apple
2014-08-31 Coffee, Tea and Wizardry
2014-08-31 Dreamsville
2014-08-31 Summer Sins
2014-06-11 Lost Blues
2014-03-24 Soul Searchers
2014-01-10 Chasing Shadows
2014-01-01 Rat Nest
2013-08-31 Ascension
2013-08-31 The Dragon’s Son
2013-08-31 Fallen Angels
2013-08-31 Devil’s Den
2013-07-03 SoulMates
2013-06-17 Happy Birthday!
2013-01-01 Happy Birthday!
2012-08-31 Disordered
2012-02-14 Tickled Pink
2012-01-01 Meltdown
2011-10-02 Litany of the Seven Kisses
2011-08-31 Free Form Frolic
2011-08-31 The Stone Boy
2011-01-01 Splatter Movie
2010-08-31 Debbie and the Demons
2010-08-31 Echo’s Garden
2010-08-31 The Dreamer’s Tale
2010-08-31 Opal Essence
2010-08-31 Medusa’s Gaze
2009-08-31 Bedeviled
2009-08-31 Ephemeral Seizure
2009-08-31 Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales
2009-08-31 Idyll
2009-01-01 Dumped!
2009-01-01 Swan Song
2009-01-01 The Tiger
2009-01-01 Animal
2008-08-31 A Brief Summer’s Tale
2008-08-31 The Faery Garden
2008-08-31 A Dream of Roses
2008-08-31 Song of the Seven Senses
2008-08-31 Witchery
2008-03-13 A Midsummer's Nightmare
2008-01-01 The Vernal Zone
2008-01-01 Peek-A-Boo
2007-08-31 Vortex
2007-08-31 State of Mind
2007-08-31 Paradise Gone
2007-08-31 Scarlet Petals
2007-08-31 Fruit of the Serpent
2007-01-01 Incantation
2006-08-31 Celestial Murmurs
2006-08-31 A Poem for Summer
2006-08-31 Haunted
2006-08-31 Zoology
2006-01-01 Sweet Dreams
2006-01-01 Midnight Mass
2005-08-31 Atonement
2005-08-31 NightRise
2005-08-31 In the Garden of Eros
2005-08-31 The Prayers of Cupie LaRue
2005-07-07 Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase
2004-11-03 Heaven Cannot Hold Them
2004-08-31 Day Dreaming
2004-08-31 Romance
2003-08-31 Miss Philly’s Valentine
2003-01-01 Inspiration
2002-08-31 Shepherd’s Poem
2002-01-01 Wind in My Sails
2000-08-31 Boy Toys
2000-01-01 Tryst
1998-08-31 The Stranger in Apartment 9F
1997-08-31 Candy Coated Evil
1997-08-31 On a Shore Beneath the Sky
1997-01-01 Purgatory Junction
1997-01-01 A Widow's Web
1996-08-31 The Bristled Dagger
1996-01-01 Statue in the Park
1995-08-31 Cupid’s Infirmary
1995-06-14 The Pictures of Dorian Gray
1994-08-31 Blue Banshee
1984-09-14 Seascape
1984-01-01 Fable for a new age
1976-01-01 Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults
1975-06-17 Bloodsucker
1975-01-01 Fur of the Field
1972-11-09 Didgeridoo
1972-01-01 Faraway Places
1970-08-31 Abode of the Snows
1970-02-02 Tales of the Bronx
1969-01-01 Chronicles
1968-03-31 Variations
1967-12-21 The Craven Sluck
1967-12-21 Fragments
1966-07-01 The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966-01-01 Green Desire
1965-01-04 Sins of the Fleshapoids
1964-03-04 Born of the Wind
1963-09-23 Tootsies in Autumn
1963-01-01 Confessions of Babette
1962-01-01 Night of the Bomb
1961-01-01 Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
1961-01-01 A Reel of Home Movies
1960-01-01 I Was a Teenage Rumpot
1959-01-01 The Thief and the Stripper
1958-01-01 The Slasher
1957-01-01 The Naked and the Nude
1956-01-01 A Tub Named Desire