Name
Mike Kuchar
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1942-08-31 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
New York, New York
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.
Known For
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The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters....
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It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, undergroun...
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A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic commu...
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One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots...
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A desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some ...
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A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his su...
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[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vo...
- 1976 Seadrift
- 1976 The Shadow Glass
- 1966 River Windows
- 1977 George and Mike Kuchar as Self
- 1974 Nudes: A Sketchbook
- 1972 Peed Into the Wind
- 2023 My Morning with Magic Mike as Self
- 1988 Return to the House of Pain as Self
- 1966 Galaxie as Self
- 1968 Underground New York as Self
- 1967 The Unclean as Himself
- 1967 Color Me Shameless
- 2010 Snow Beard
- 1987 East by Southwest
- 1974 True Blue and Dreamy
- 1987 Video Album 5: The Thursday People
- 2007 365 Day Project as Self
- 1963 Confessions of Babette as Leonard
- 1964 Lust for Ecstasy
- 1965 Corruption of the Damned
- 1962 Sylvia’s Promise
- 1983 George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground as Himself
- 1995 An Evil Town
- 2000 Divine Trash as Self
- 1986 He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 It Came from Kuchar as Self
- 2006 Meet The Kuchar Brothers
- 1989 Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
- 1989 Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
- 1966 The Secret of Wendel Samson as Wendel Samson (voice)
- 1971 Portrait of Ramona
- 1994 Urchins of Ungawa
- 2004 Bird, Bath and Beyond as Self
- 1987 The Creeping Crimson
- 2017 Oh Hi Anne as Himself
- 1974 Beaver Fever
- 1969 Chronicles
- 1978 Cinématon as N°1085
- 1968 The Mammal Palace
- 1987 Cult of the Cubicles as Himself
- 1992 Award as Himself
- 1998 Domain of the Pixel Pixies as Himself
- 1975 Magicman
- 1988 Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
- 2005 BIRD IN THE SKY as Grandfather
- 2009 The Unmentionables
