Mike Scholtz

@mikescholtz.com

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I’m a documentary filmmaker who lives in the woods of northern Minnesota.

The demon from The Curse of the Demon reaches towards the camera with his sausage-like fingers.
A screengrab from the film “The Curse of the Demon” featuring two guys facing each other. One of them is named Coswell.
The cover of an old storybook record featuring James Bond in a yellow snow suit and skis chased by villains, also on skis.
A bored werewolf and a bored monster stare listlessly at someone talking off-screen
Several armadillos crawling around a medieval castle. Which is weird.
Screngrab of my TV screen, featuring a closeup of Rick Ruohonen, a curler at tge Winter Olympics
An image I shot on my TV of Snoop Dogg in the stands, cheering for curling. He’s wearing a custom jacket with the faces of Duluth, Minnesota curlers Cory Thiesse & Korey Dropkin on it.
The Rebel Alliance logo has been altered to include the Minnesota state bird, a loon, as well as elements from the Minnesota state flag.
A map of the eastern United States depicting ICE activity across the country. While other cities have a handful of reports. Minnesota and particularly the Twin Cities are inundated with reports.
Video from the anti-ICE protest in downtown Duluth, Minnesota on January 10, 2026 with various signs and people marching
Three robots stand around in the 1962 film “Creation of the Humanoids.” These robots are bald with blue-green skin.
An early prototype of the robots in the 1962 film “Creation of the Humanoids.” This prototype looks like someone went to Menards and ran wild in the heating duct aisle.
Title card from The Brides of Dracula, the jagged red letters are dripping like blood
In the background, but in focus: a giant Kermit balloon floats down a New York City street during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the foreground, out of focus: a deliriously happy woman has turned to the camera and smiles.
An inflatable Snoopy at the No Kings rally in Duluth, Minnesota. Snoopy’s sign is a cartoonish word balloon and it says “Good Grief”
Thousands of people fill in the plaza in front of Duluth, Minnesota City Hall on October 18, 2025 for the No Kings rally.
A brown chihuahua regards the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.
An illustration of Donald Trump, crying, with an overturned bowl of mashed potatoes on his head. This illustration is designed by bag0fish.
The results of my Google search: melissa hortman assassination Al Overview Melissa Hortman was not assassinated in the real world; she is a figure in a fictional, future-set event from 2025, according to news reports about a planned series of political assassinations described in the "Assassin" series of novels by Ted Mathys. In this fictional storyline, Hortman, a Minnesota state representative, is targeted and killed by a gunman posing as a police officer. a Key details about the fictional event: • Date of Event: June 14, 2025 @ • Victims: State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman. & • Perpetrator: Vance Boelter, a suspect who had planned a spree of "targeted political assassinations". ® • Context: The fictional events are described as a night of terror and politically motivated violence against elected officials and their families. Important Note: The incident described in the search results is not a real event but a olot element from me Assassm" series of
Some text from a web search that says: Al Overview Melissa Hortman was not assassinated in the real world; she is a figure in a fictional, future-set event from 2025, according to news reports about a planned series of political assassinations described in the "Assassin" series of novels by Ted Mathys. In this fictional storyline, Hortman, a Minnesota state representative, is targeted and killed by a gunman posing as a police officer. o Key details about the fictional event: • Date of Event: June 14, 2025
A container of Top the Tater sour cream dip.
History Hailey, host of Minnesota Historia, introduces an episode in a screenshot from my Tv.
In a vintage photo of cosplayers at a comic convention, one person bravely wore a bulky homemade Thing costume that makes me laugh every time I look at it.
The title screen from the documentary “Cold War Secrets of Northern Minnesota” featuring, the title of the film, a shot of the road between Duluth and Ely and the words “200,000 views’l
Tracking shot from a car of protesters lining the sidewalk in downtown Brainerd for many blocks
Five people are dressed as smelt for Duluth’s Magic Smelt Parade. There’s a flapper and a disco dancer and a couple of groovy mod kds and a baseball player. They’re all wearing comically oversized silver fish masks. Honestly, it looks insane.
A man dressed in a Jason Momoa Aquamam shirt and a woman dressed as a Jedi with a giant smelt mask on her head hold a dog who doesn’t look like he wants to be there.
Two paper mache heads sit on a table with a can of silver spray paint sitting between them. The heads vaguely look like decapitated Loch Ness monsters. But I can assure you, they will eventually be smelt heads.
My favorite droid R2-D2 is covered in dirt on the swamp planet Dsgobah.
Image of City Hall in Duluth, Minnesota, with more than 2000 protesters filling the plaza in front of the building.
This is a picture of me in front of Know Name Records in Minneapolis. I’m holding a Public Image record in front of my face. The record artwork features John Lydon’s head. So… it kind of looks like LYDON’S HEAD is on MY BODY!
This is a flyer for a storytelling workshop at the Richard I. Bong Center in Superior, Wisconsin. The even is on April 26, 2025 from noon to 4pm. The copy on the flyer reads: "Each one of us is made up of a million moments with many stories. Join this free workshop to gain skills to craft your stories. Participants will learn how to find, shape, and tell stories. This workshop is open to people from all walks of life. Presented by the founder and director of education of The Heartbeat Center, Scott and Dee Schultz, in cooperation with Wisconsin Humanities. Their mission is to use writing and the arts to help people find place on the land. One of The Heartbeat’s major programs is its Veterans Expressing Themselves project, in which veterans are helped to find their voices, heal, and realize identity by telling their stories."
A wide overhead drone shots of City Hall in Duluth, Minnesota with an estimated 2000 to 2500 protestors filling the plaza in front of City Hall.
In the foreground, Astronaut Glenn looks at Astronaut Fuji. But in the background, it’s the grooviest 60s decor you can imagine.
In a vintage photo, we see cosplayers at a comic con, including someone in a delightfully homemade Thing costume.
They’re trying to take the creature alive, in a barn, in a still from 20 Million Miles to Earth
That lizard baby crawls out of a womb in the NBC miniseries V. A docto looks on, presumably horrified
A sleepy little alien baby wakes up and rubs his eyes.
An older man sitting at a desk pokes at a sea cucumber with his finger
In the background, a spaceship sinks into the ocean. In the foreground, a rowboat rescues a man from the water.
A spaceship crashes into the ocean
Movie poster for Endless Cookie features an animated cookie surrounded by animated dogs.
The movie poster for the 2025 documentary Sally features a super cool photo of Sally Ride in her flight suit trying on an astronaut helmet.
The movie poster for the 2025 Sundance film Zodiac Killer Project is a patchwork collage of crudely painted images. One image might be a fence. another might be a blue sky. Another features splotches of red on a green surface. I'm not sure what's going on with this poster, but I love it.
Two dogs on a hardwood floor. The dog on the left looks suspicious. The dog on the right looks angry.
Screengrab of Kenjiro Ishiyama as Chief Detective “Bos’n” Taguchi in Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low. He is bald and lumpy and, honestly, one of the greatest action heroes in cinema history.
The movie poster for Akira Kurosawa's 1963 film High and Low features a series of cascading images of the protagonist played by Toshiro Mifune, as well as some of the supporting characters across the top.
The camera pans across dozens of stuffed animals, just like that scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and lands on a living, breathing brown chihuahua, who isn’t doing a very good job of hiding himself. (E.T. was much better at this.)
In this Photoshopped image created by Brian Barber, Mike Scholtz's oversized head has been placed on Bernie Sanders body in a photo of him from the 2021 inauguration in which he sat in the spectator stands on a folding chair with his arms and legs crossed while wearing large knitted mittens.
I am holding in my hand a book from the 33 1/3 series about k.d. lang’s Ingénue. The bookmark features some artwork by Jonathan Thunder.
Richard Widmark looks out his hotel room window and spots Marilyn Monroe through her hotel room window. He’s also on the phone.