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Mike Olenick makes perverse genre films focused on photography, forbidden desire, reproduction, transformation, memories, and outer space. His films have screened at Fantastic Fest and Fantasia, streamed on MUBI, played on Dutch television, and have won awards at the Slamdance Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Cinematexas, Big Muddy Film Festival, and Nightmares Film Festival, among others. In 2016 he was one of the inaugural fellows at Shudder Labs, where he developed a script for a sci-fi / horror feature.  Mike has worked as an editor of projects for Guy Maddin (including The Forbidden Room and Keyhole), Michael Robinson, Kelly Reichardt, the Quay Brothers, Lucy Raven, and Sadie Benning. Since 2003 he has edited numerous works for Jennifer Reeder, including A Million Miles Away, Blood Below the Skin, and Knives and Skin. Works he's edited are in the collections of MoMA and the Tate.  Mike received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art with an emphasis in Photography and a BFA in Media Studies from the Columbus College of Art & Design. He was a fashion “do” in Vice Magazine and his love of cats has been documented on Buzzfeed. When he is not putting together a jigsaw puzzle or drawing cats he is working on the script for a sci-fi / soap opera / thriller.

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Film Production

Director:
2013  All the Memory in the World
2014  Red Luck
2017  The Cure

Director of Photography:
2010  Seven Songs About Thunder
2011  Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep
2013  All the Memory in the World
2013  Girls Love Horses
2014  A Million Miles Away
2014  Red Luck
2017  The Cure

Editor:
2004  The Closer Stockholm
2004  Travis
2005  Uyuni
2010  Seven Songs About Thunder
2011  Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep
2012  And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down
2013  All the Memory in the World
2013  Girls Love Horses
2014  A Million Miles Away
2014  Red Luck
2015  Blood Below the Skin
2016  Crystal Lake
2016  Marietta Brimble
2017  All Small Bodies
2017  Lola, 15
2017  Shuvit
2017  The Cure
2018  I Dream You Dream of Me
2019  Knives and Skin
2021  They/Them/Us

Online Editor:
2004  The Closer Stockholm
2004  Travis
2005  Uyuni
2010  Seven Songs About Thunder
2011  Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep
2012  And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down
2013  All the Memory in the World
2013  Girls Love Horses
2013  Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2014  A Million Miles Away
2014  Red Luck
2015  Blood Below the Skin
2016  Crystal Lake
2016  Marietta Brimble
2017  All Small Bodies
2017  Lola, 15
2017  Shuvit
2017  The Cure
2018  I Dream You Dream of Me
2019  Knives and Skin
2021  They/Them/Us

Producer:
2004  The Closer Stockholm
2004  Travis
2005  Uyuni
2010  Seven Songs About Thunder
2011  Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep
2012  And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down
2013  All the Memory in the World
2013  Girls Love Horses
2013  Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2014  A Million Miles Away
2014  Red Luck
2015  Blood Below the Skin
2016  Crystal Lake
2016  Marietta Brimble
2017  All Small Bodies
2017  Lola, 15
2017  Shuvit
2017  The Cure
2018  I Dream You Dream of Me
2019  Knives and Skin
2021  They/Them/Us

Writer:
2004  The Closer Stockholm
2004  Travis
2005  Uyuni
2010  Seven Songs About Thunder
2011  Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep
2012  And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down
2013  All the Memory in the World
2013  Girls Love Horses
2013  Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2014  A Million Miles Away
2014  Red Luck
2015  Blood Below the Skin
2016  Crystal Lake
2016  Marietta Brimble
2017  All Small Bodies
2017  Lola, 15
2017  Shuvit
2017  The Cure
2018  I Dream You Dream of Me
2019  Knives and Skin
2021  They/Them/Us

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