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.

Directed

1. Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965) — Director
2. Tootsies in Autumn (1963) — Director
3. The Craven Sluck (1967) — Director
4. The Secret of Wendel Samson (1966) — Director
5. Born of the Wind (1964) — Director
6. Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof (1963) — Director
7. SoulMates (2013) — Director
8. Adam’s Apple (2014) — Director
9. The Bristled Dagger (1996) — Director
10. Ephemeral Seizure (2009) — Director
11. Zoology (2006) — Director
12. Miss Philly’s Valentine (2003) — Director
13. NightRise (2005) — Director
14. Summer Sins (2014) — Director
15. The Prayers of Cupie LaRue (2005) — Director
16. Song of the Seven Senses (2008) — Director
17. In the Garden of Eros (2005) — Director
18. Shepherd’s Poem (2002) — Director
19. Opal Essence (2010) — Director
20. The Stone Boy (2011) — Director
21. Witchery (2008) — Director
22. Soul Searchers (2014) — Director
23. Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults (1976) — Director
24. Green Desire (1966) — Director
25. I Was a Teenage Rumpot (1960) — Director
26. Swan Song (2009) — Director
27. The Naked and the Nude (1957) — Director
28. The Thief and the Stripper (1959) — Director
29. The Slasher (1958) — Director
30. Night of the Bomb (1962) — Director
31. Confessions of Babette (1963) — Director
32. Fragments (1967) — Director
33. A Tub Named Desire (1956) — Director
34. The Vernal Zone (2008) — Director
35. Blue Vibrations (2014) — Director
36. Chasing Shadows (2014) — Director
37. Lost Blues (2014) — Director
38. Seascape (1984) — Director
39. Dumped! (2009) — Director
40. Museum of Damaged Art (2015) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Divine Trash (2000) — Self
2. It Came from Kuchar (2009) — Self
3. He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) — Self (archive footage)
4. The Secret of Wendel Samson (1966) — Wendel Samson (voice)
5. An Evil Town (1995)
6. Cinématon (1978) — N°1085
7. George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground (1983) — Himself
8. Peed Into the Wind (1972)
9. Nudes: A Sketchbook (1974)
10. True Blue and Dreamy (1974)
11. Corruption of the Damned (1965)
12. Beaver Fever (1974)
13. BIRD IN THE SKY (2005) — Grandfather
14. Bird, Bath and Beyond (2004) — Self
15. George and Mike Kuchar (1977) — Self
16. My Morning with Magic Mike (2023) — Self
17. Return to the House of Pain (1988) — Self
18. Galaxie (1966) — Self
19. Color Me Shameless (1967)
20. East by Southwest (1987)
21. 365 Day Project (2007) — Self
22. Lust for Ecstasy (1964)
23. Confessions of Babette (1963) — Leonard
24. Sylvia’s Promise (1962)
25. Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s (1989)
26. Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness (1989)
27. Portrait of Ramona (1971)
28. The Creeping Crimson (1987)
29. The Mammal Palace (1968)
30. Cult of the Cubicles (1987) — Himself
31. Award (1992) — Himself
32. Domain of the Pixel Pixies (1998) — Himself
33. Seadrift (1976)
34. The Shadow Glass (1976)
35. River Windows (1966)
36. Underground New York (1968) — Self
37. The Unclean (1967) — Himself
38. Snow Beard (2010)
39. Video Album 5: The Thursday People (1987)
40. Meet The Kuchar Brothers (2006)