Mike Cuenca


 * List of Oblivion crew members

Mike Cuenca is a self-taught underground filmmaker and musician responsible for punk-themed short film Psycho ’78 and the incomplete mockumentary Tammy Vargas.

Background
Cuenca's first feature-length film is Scenes from Oblivion, a youth-in-quarrel/semi-comic drama reflecting his Cuban-American upbringing and love of punk rock music. Scenes from Oblivion was made on a shoestring budget. He is also the creator of punks, mods and rockers web series Oblivion which he co-writes, edits, produces, directs and acts in. He is also developing an "Untitled black & white kitchen sink movie about sex, Mods, and comic books" which he hopes to film within a span of 5 years to have the actors age in real-time.

Currently Cuenca has taken a break from Oblivion to focus on a set of three loosely connected cheap black and white movies, the first which is now in production under the working title "Jerry Powell". The three movies are being shot by Cuenca's girlfriend, Los Angeles and New York based photographer Amberlie Bankoff.

Cuenca’s growing body of work addresses such themes as personal identity and freedom, absurdist philosophy, and punk ideology with a dose of slapstick. He cites his major influences as Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, the Marx Bros, and the French New Wave.

Filmography

 * 1) Odium for Ardor (2013) – Writer/Director/Actor/Editor
 * 2) Untitled Real-Time Movie (2010-2015) - Writer/Director/Editor
 * 3) Untitled Couples Movie (2011) - Writer/Director/Editor
 * 4) Untitled Squatter Movie (2010) - Writer/Director/Editor
 * 5) Sadie (working title) (2010) (in pre-production) - Writer/Editor/Director
 * 6) Jerry, Delusion, and Candor (2010) (in production) - Writer/Director/Editor
 * 7) "Oblivion" (2009-Present) - Creator/Writer/Director/Actor/Editor
 * 8) Scenes from Oblivion (2008) – Writer/Director/Actor/Editor