Mike Olenick

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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.

Film	Credit
Please Be Tender2024 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor	Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Gary2024 · Editor	Editor
They/Them/Us2021 · Editor	Editor
Knives and Skin2019 · Editor	Editor
I Dream You Dream of Me2018 · Editor	Editor
Shuvit2017 · Editor	Editor
Lola, 152017 · Editor	Editor
All Small Bodies2017 · Editor	Editor
The Cure2017 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor	Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Crystal Lake2016 · Editor	Editor
Marietta Brimble2016 · Editor	Editor
Blood Below the Skin2015 · Editor	Editor
A Million Miles Away2014 · Editor, Director of Photography	Editor, Director of Photography
GGirls Love Horses2013 · Editor, Director of Photography	Editor, Director of Photography
AAnd I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down2012 · Editor, Producer	Editor, Producer
TTears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep2011 · Editor, Director of Photography	Editor, Director of Photography
SSeven Songs About Thunder2010 · Producer, Director of Photography, Editor	Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Uyuni2005 · Editor	Editor
Travis2004 · Editor	Editor
The Closer Stockholm2004 · Editor	Editor