Editor
Mike Olenick
17 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 17
Cat and Mouse
2026 · Director, Writer
Please Be Tender
2024 · Director, Writer
Gary
2024 · Editor
They/Them/Us
2021 · Editor
On Plex
Knives and Skin
2019 · Editor
On AMC+
I Dream You Dream of Me
2018 · Editor
Shuvit
2017 · Editor
On Vimeo
Lola, 15
2017 · Editor
All Small Bodies
2017 · Editor
On Kanopy
The Cure
2017 · Director, Writer
On Vimeo
Crystal Lake
2016 · Editor
On Criterion Channel
Marietta Brimble
2016 · Editor
Blood Below the Skin
2015 · Editor
A Million Miles Away
2014 · Editor, Cinematography
Uyuni
2005 · Editor
Travis
2004 · Editor
The Closer Stockholm
2004 · Editor