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Mike Kuchar
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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 to…
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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.
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Mike Kuchar's Filmography
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My Morning with Magic Mike
as Self
Oh Hi Anne
as Himself
No Poster
Snow Beard
It Came from Kuchar
as Self
The Unmentionables
365 Day Project
as Self
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
BIRD IN THE SKY
as Grandfather
No Poster
Bird, Bath and Beyond
as Self
No Poster
A Big Ass Lust for Speed
as mysterious man
Divine Trash
as Self
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
as Himself
An Evil Town
Urchins of Ungawa
Award
as Himself
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
No Poster
Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
No Poster
Return to the House of Pain
as Self
The Creeping Crimson
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
Cult of the Cubicles
as Himself
No Poster
East by Southwest
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
as Himself
Cinématon
as N°1085
No Poster
George and Mike Kuchar
as Self
Seadrift
The Shadow Glass
No Poster
Magicman
Nudes: A Sketchbook
True Blue and Dreamy
Beaver Fever
Peed Into the Wind
Portrait of Ramona
Chronicles
No Poster
The Mammal Palace
Underground New York
as Self
Color Me Shameless
No Poster
The Unclean
as Himself
Galaxie
as Self
The Secret of Wendel Samson
as Wendel Samson (voice)
River Windows
Corruption of the Damned
No Poster
Lust for Ecstasy
No Poster
Confessions of Babette
as Leonard
No Poster