Mike Kuchar

Overview

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Birthday
Aug 31, 1942 (82 years old)

Mike Kuchar

Known For

My Morning with Magic Mike
0h 9m
Movie 2023

My Morning with Magic Mike

A visit with the inimitable Mike Kuchar.

Oh Hi Anne
0h 9m
Movie 2017

Oh Hi Anne

An epic tale of love and loss. Made using voicemails the Kuchar brothers left on her home answering machine, the artist reveals George and Mike in all their candid honesty leading up to and following George’s untimely death in 2011. McGuire floats their voices along a river of digital scribbles and her own voice in singer/songwriter mode. The beauty of the piece lies partly in how the voicemails, used as-is and chronologically, contain an entire narrative about love and loss in a DIY style reminiscent of the Kuchars.

Award
0h 20m
Movie 1992

Award

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
0h 11m
Movie 1989

Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime yearnings craving ignition.

Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
0h 45m
Movie 1989

Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s

A wide-ranging look at pictures I collect on my walls and in my head. A look at pictures I concoct with my students at the San Francisco Art Institute, and objects d’art collected by those whose picture is taken by my picture-taking machine.

Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar
Movie 1988

Cinématon n°1085 : Mike Kuchar

Return to the House of Pain
0h 27m
Movie 1988

Return to the House of Pain

Return to the House of Pain documents my walking through the turf and sludge of the Big Apple and many worm holes... I chomp my way back west and gnaw on all that sinks stomachward and beyond in vertiginous aching.

The Creeping Crimson
0h 15m
Movie 1987

The Creeping Crimson

A short film by George Kuchar.

Video Album 5: The Thursday People
0h 59m
Movie 1987

Video Album 5: The Thursday People

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with him—are the themes that run through this existential diary of daily life. McDowell was dying from AIDS-related illnesses during the production of the diary. “An elegy for McDowell, the videowork captures Kuchar’s mournful remembrances of his long-lasting friendship with the young filmmaker. But it also has the inquisitive charm, perverse humor, and quirky candor that places Kuchar’s visual expressions in a gritty niche all their own.”

Cult of the Cubicles
0h 45m
Movie 1987

Cult of the Cubicles

Writes Kuchar: "It's New York in the summer and I set out to track down some high school friends who have burrowed deep into the 'big apple.' The viewer gets to see how far they've eaten their way to the core in this 45-minute study of urban denizens in the grip of Newtonian damnation." Here, Kuchar visits his mother in the Bronx, chats and eats with old friends in their claustrophobic New York apartments, and muses about friendship, growing older, and a time when the "streets of New York were cleaner, and so was I."

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.

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