Film director Mike Stoltz: biography, career, and where to

Under the Atmosphere

Mike Stoltz

Mike Stoltz pays wistful tribute to his childhood home on Central Florida's "Space Coast," the site of NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Under the Atmosphere

5.6 ⚠️ 2014

Half Human, Half Vapor

Mike Stoltz

“This project began out of a fascination with a giant sculpture of a dragon attached to a Central Florida mansion. The property had recently been left to rot, held in lien by a bank. Hurricanes washed away the sculpture. I learned about the artist who created this landmark, Lewis Vandercar (1913-1988), who began as a painter. His practice grew along with his notoriety for spell-casting and telepathy. Inspired by Vandercar’s interest in parallel possibility, I combined these images with text from local newspaper articles in a haunted-house film that both engages with and looks beyond the material world.”—Mike Stoltz

Half Human, Half Vapor

2015

Something to Touch That Is Not Corruption or Ashes or Dust

Mike Stoltz

Fences, zooms, blast beats, and oscillators search for possibility or perforation as walls close in, attempting to break free from patterns and spirals as bodies become contained.

Something to Touch That Is Not Corruption or Ashes or Dust

2020

With Pluses and Minuses

Mike Stoltz

“This morning the window blew its glass onto my face. Real morning with pluses and minuses: my symbols for truth.” (Watt)

With Pluses and Minuses

2013

Spotlight On A Brick Wall

Alee Peoples, Mike Stoltz

An abstracted nightclub performance, its constituent parts—stand-up comedy, a capella, a laconic bass-and-drum rock duo, a slapstick mime—wrenched apart and recombined.

Spotlight On A Brick Wall

2016

In Between

Mike Stoltz

An exercise in permeable architecture, an attempt to walk through walls.

In Between

2010