Mike Olenick
Editing
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.
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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.
Known for
Knives and Skin
November 20, 2019
They/Them/Us
September 11, 2021
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
November 1, 2013
Travis
July 14, 2004
All Small Bodies
July 1, 2017
Blood Below the Skin
April 11, 2015
I Dream You Dream of Me
July 15, 2018
Kings of the Sky
September 16, 2004
Shuvit
December 1, 2017
Crystal Lake
February 14, 2016
A Million Miles Away
June 21, 2014
Uyuni
January 1, 2005
Behind the camera25
- 2026Cat and Mouse Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Producer, Production Design
- 2024Please Be Tender Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
- 2024Gary Editor
- 2021They/Them/Us Editor
- 2019Knives and Skin Editor
- 2018I Dream You Dream of Me Editor
- 2017Shuvit Editor
- 2017Lola, 15 Editor
- 2017All Small Bodies Editor
- 2017The Cure