Mike Kuchar

Known for DirectingBorn 1942-08-31 (age 83)New York, New York

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.Read more

Movies & web series

365 Day Project

The Bristled Dagger

Return to the House of Pain

The Creeping Crimson

George and Mike Kuchar

Color Me Shameless

Galaxie

Green Desire

Sylvia’s Promise

The Thief and the Stripper

A Tub Named Desire

BIRD IN THE SKY

Award

Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

East by Southwest

Cult of the Cubicles

Confessions of Babette

Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Domain of the Pixel Pixies

Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

The Mammal Palace

Night of the Bomb

I Was a Teenage Rumpot

George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

The Naked and the Nude

Divine Trash

It Came from Kuchar

Fragments

Lust for Ecstasy

Life Is Like a Cucumber

The Slasher

Bird, Bath and Beyond

Corruption of the Damned

The Craven Sluck

Sins of the Fleshapoids

Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults

The Devil's Cleavage

My Morning with Magic Mike

Born of the Wind

An Evil Town

Silence = Death

Tootsies in Autumn

Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

Portrait of Ramona

The Secret of Wendel Samson

Cinématon

True Blue and Dreamy