Cast & creator
Mike Kuchar
Best known for Cinématon, 365 Day Project, Seadrift
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.
199
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television credits
47
1956–2024 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (199)
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Cinématon
N°1085
1978
365 Day Project
Self
2007
Seadrift
1976
It Came from Kuchar
Self
2009
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986
Divine Trash
Self
2000
Street Meat
Director
2018
Soul Searchers
Director
2014
Positive
Director of Photography
1990
Romance
Director
2004
Summer Sins
Director
2014
Midnight Mass
Director
2006
Witchery
Director
2008
Zoology
Director
2006
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Cinematography
1990
NightRise
Director
2005
Ephemeral Seizure
Director
2009
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
Tickled Pink
Director
2012The Naked and the Nude
Director
1957
Bedeviled
Director
2009
Angels We
Director
2015
Boy Toys
Director
2000
Underground New York
Self
1968Magicman
1975
Sunkissed
Director
2019
Sins of the Fleshapoids
Director
1965Sins of the Fleshapoids
Editor
1965Sins of the Fleshapoids
Writer
1965Sins of the Fleshapoids
Producer
1965Sins of the Fleshapoids
Director of Photography
1965
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
Cinematography
1990
The Creeping Crimson
1987
Opal Essence
Director
2010
Animal
Director
2009Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
Director
1963
The Devil's Cleavage
Cinematography
1975
The Prayers of Cupie LaRue
Director
2005
Inward Bound
Director
2019
The Stranger in Apartment 9F
Director
1998The Mammal Palace
1968
Blue Banshee
Director
1994
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987
Chasing Shadows
Director
2014
Miss Philly’s Valentine
Director
2003
True Blue and Dreamy
1974
Chromatic Effusion
Director
2014
The Tiger
Director
2009
Song of the Seven Senses
Director
2008
Day Dreaming
Director
2004
On a Shore Beneath the Sky
Director
1997
Fallen Angels
Director
2013
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989
The Secret of Wendel Samson
Wendel Samson (voice)
1966The Secret of Wendel Samson
Director
1966Rat Nest
Director
2014
Born of the Wind
Director
1964
Splatter Movie
Director
2011
Statue in the Park
Director
1996
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974
Cult of the Cubicles
Himself
1987
Idyll
Director
2009
Sweet Dreams
Director
2006
My Morning with Magic Mike
Self
2023
In the Garden of Eros
Director
2005
BIRD IN THE SKY
Grandfather
2005
Scarlet Petals
Director
2007
Incantation
Director
2007Bird, Bath and Beyond
Self
2004George and Mike Kuchar
Self
1977
Sunlit Sorcery
Director
2022
Green Desire
Director
1966Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
1988
Tone Poem
Director
1984
Silence = Death
Director of Photography
1990
Galaxie
Self
1966Variations
Director
1968
Haunted
Director
2006
An Evil Town
1995
Lost Blues
Director
2014
The Stone Boy
Director
2011
Paradise Gone
Director
2007
NightScape
Director
2017Night of the Bomb
Director
1962
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
Himself
1983
Celestial Horizons
Director
2019
Atonement
Director
2005
Broken Gods
Director
2017
Peed Into the Wind
1972
Seascape
Director
1984
Corruption of the Damned
1965
A Tub Named Desire
Director
1956
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989
Ascension
Director
2013
Meltdown
Director
2012
A Reel of Home Movies
Director
1961
Medusa’s Gaze
Director
2010The Thief and the Stripper
Director
1959
SoulSurfers
Director
2017
Faraway Places
Director
1972
Litany of the Seven Kisses
Director
2011
Blue Vibrations
Director
2014
Didgeridoo
Director
1972Fragments
Director
1967
The Craven Sluck
Director
1967The Craven Sluck
Writer
1967
Celestial Murmurs
Director
2006
Debbie and the Demons
Director
2010
Tryst
Director
2000A Big Ass Lust for Speed
mysterious man
2001
Award
Himself
1992
The Unmentionables
2009Return to the House of Pain
Self
1988
Swan Song
Director
2009Swan Song
Writer
2009Snow Beard
2010
Stolen Sweets and Tattle Tales
Director
2009
River Windows
1966The Slasher
Director
1958I Was a Teenage Rumpot
Director
1960Lust for Ecstasy
1964
Oh Hi Anne
Himself
2017
The Pictures of Dorian Gray
Director
1995
Color Me Shameless
1967
The Voice in the Man
Director
2023
The Dragon’s Son
Director
2013Flesh and the Stars
Director
2018Tootsies in Autumn
Director
1963
Purgatory Junction
Director
1997Confessions of Babette
Leonard
1963Confessions of Babette
Director
1963The Unclean
Himself
1967
The Second Coming
Cinematography
1995
The Breeze and Him
Director
2015Dumped!
Director
2009Dumped!
Writer
2009
Disordered
Director
2012
Beaver Fever
1974
Abstracted
Director
2016
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
Himself
1998
Chronicles
1969
Shepherd’s Poem
Director
2002Chronicles
Director
1969
The Bristled Dagger
Director
1996
Portrait of Ramona
1971
Urchins of Ungawa
1994Fable for a New Age
Director
1984
Pathways
Director
2019
Peek-A-Boo
Director
2008
Fruit of the Serpent
Director
2007
Boy in the Mirror
Director
2015
Moon Lit Vows
Director
2017
SoulMates
Director
2013
The Dreamer’s Tale
Director
2010
The Vernal Zone
Director
2008
A Poem for Summer
Director
2006
Cupid’s Infirmary
Director
1995
Fur of the Field
Director
1975
Echo’s Garden
Director
2010Sylvia’s Promise
1962
State of Mind
Director
2007Inspiration
Director
2003
Starbound
Director
2012
Dreamsville
Director
2014East by Southwest
1987
Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults
Director
1976
Abode of the Snows
Director
1970
Museum of Damaged Art
Director
2015
Tales of the Bronx
Director
1970
Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase
Director
2005
Dark Night of the Soul
Director
2016
Age of Anxiety
Director
2015Vortex
Director
2007
Him in the Night
Director
2019
Soul Catcher
Director
2017
Bloodsucker
Director
1975
A Midsummer's Nightmare
Director
2008
The Shadow Glass
1976A Widow's Web
Director
1997
The Faery Garden
Director
2008
The Season of Shadows and Flame
Director
2018
Devil’s Den
Director
2013
Candy Coated Evil
Director
1997
Adam’s Apple
Director
2014
A Brief Summer’s Tale
Director
2008
Coffee, Tea and Wizardry
Director
2014
Keeper of Secrets
Director
2017
Happy Birthday!
Director
2013
Wrestling with Angels
Director
2015
Happy Birthday!
Director
2013
Free Form Frolic
Director
2011Heaven Cannot Hold Them
Director
2004
A Rented Space
Director
2015
Wind in My Sails
Director
2002
Five O'Clock Shadows
Director
2016
A Dream of Roses
Director
2008Kuchar-esque
Writer
2024Kuchar-esque
Director
2024
Meat with Bones
Director
2017