Mike Olenick
Known for
Editing
Biography
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...
Best known work
Knives and Skin
2019
They/Them/Us
2021
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013
Travis
2004
All Small Bodies
2017
Blood Below the Skin
2015
Seven Songs About Thunder
2010
I Dream You Dream of Me
2018
Kings of the Sky
2004And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down
2012Filmography
2026
Cat and MouseDirector, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Producer, Production Design
2024
Please Be TenderDirector, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
2024
GaryEditor
2021
They/Them/UsEditor
2019
Knives and SkinEditor
2018
I Dream You Dream of MeEditor
2017
ShuvitEditor
2017
Lola, 15Editor
2017
All Small BodiesEditor
2017
The CureDirector, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
2016
Crystal LakeEditor
2016
Marietta BrimbleEditor
2015
Blood Below the SkinEditor
2014
A Million Miles AwayDirector of Photography, Editor
2014
Red Luckas Male Victim, as Red Luck, as The Photographer, Director
2013
All the Memory in the WorldDirector
2013
Girls Love HorsesEditor, Director of Photography
2013
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.Online Editor
2012
And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You DownEditor, Producer
2011
Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I WeepEditor, Director of Photography
2010
Seven Songs About ThunderProducer, Editor, Director of Photography
2005
UyuniEditor
2004
Kings of the SkyOnline Editor
2004
TravisEditor
2004
The Closer StockholmEditor