Richard Kern
Directing
Born December 20, 1954 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
Richard Kern is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Kembra Pfahler, and Henry Rollins. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion. He was one of the leading lights of the Cinema of Transgression movement.
Filmography
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Self
Bathtub
F.F.P.
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
Himself
Russian Kiss
Extra Shot by Kern
Shot by Kern
Self
Shot By Kern
Self
House Sitter
Medicated
The Hardcore Collection
(archive footage)
The Advocate for Fagdom
Self
Face to Panty Ratio
Blank City
Self
Clean
NYC Foetus
Himself
Extra Action
Kill the Artist
Self
Llik Your Idols
Himself
Extra Action
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
Arakimentari
Self
Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern
Cutter
Divine Trash
Self
The Hardcore Collection
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV
The Hardcore Collection
Bullet on a Wire
Lunch on Kern
Himself
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
Super 8½
Self
My Nightmare
Divine Hammer
Red Spirit Lake
Sardonia's Worker
The Sewing Circle
The Bitches
IDn4
Richard Kern
Goo
American Nightmare
Nazi
Horoscope
Tumble
Catholic
X Is Y
The Evil Cameraman
Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)
Submit to Me Now
Fingered
Sublapse Video Mag 1
Submit to Me
King of Sex
Thrust in Me
You Killed Me First
Stray Dogs
Woman at the Wheel
I Hate You Now
Manhattan Love Suicides
Worm Movie
The Right Side of My Brain
Simonland
Zombie Hunger
Destruction
Goodbye 42nd Street
American Obsessions