Richard Kern
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.
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Films (65)
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019 · Self
Bathtub
2019 · Director
F.F.P.
2015 · Producer, Cinematography, Editor, Director
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015 · Himself
Russian Kiss
2014 · Director
Extra Shot by Kern
2014 · Director
The Girl Who Followed Marple
2014 · Director
Shot by Kern
2013 · Self, Director
House Sitter
2013 · Director
Medicated
2013 · Director, Editor
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011 · Self
Face to Panty Ratio
2011 · Director
Blank City
2011 · Self
Clean
2011 · Director
NYC Foetus
2009 · Himself
Kill the Artist
2007 · Self
Llik Your Idols
2007 · Himself
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
2004 · Director
Arakimentari
2004 · Self
Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
2004
New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern
2004 · Director
Cutter
2003 · Director
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
2002 · Self - Interviewee
Divine Trash
2000 · Self
The Hardcore Collection
2000 · Director
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV
1999 · Director
The Hardcore Collection
1999 · Director
Bullet on a Wire
1998
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997
Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
1994 · Camera Operator
Super 8½
1994 · Self
My Nightmare
1993 · Director, Writer
Divine Hammer
1993 · Director
Red Spirit Lake
1993 · Sardonia's Worker
No Age New York
1993 · Self
The Sewing Circle
1992 · Director, Writer
IDn4
1991 · Richard Kern
Goo
1991 · Editor, Director, Producer
American Nightmare
1991
Nazi
1991 · Director, Writer
Horoscope
1991 · Director, Writer
Catholic
1991 · Director, Writer
Tumble
1991 · Director, Writer
X Is Y
1990 · Director, Writer
The Evil Cameraman
1990 · Director, Writer
Pierce
1990 · Director
Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)
1990 · Director
We Are Not To Blame
1989
Submit to Me Now
1987 · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor, Director of Photography
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
King of Sex
1986 · Director, Writer
Thrust in Me
1985 · Director, Writer
Submit to Me
1985 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Stray Dogs
1985 · Director, Writer
You Killed Me First
1985 · Director, Writer, Producer
Woman at the Wheel
1985 · Director, Writer
I Hate You Now
1985 · Director, Writer
Manhattan Love Suicides
1985 · Writer, Director
Worm Movie
1985 · Cinematography
Simonland
1984 · Director
Zombie Hunger 2
1984 · Cinematography, Writer, Director, Producer
Zombie Hunger
1984 · Writer, Producer, Director
Destruction
1984 · Director, Writer, Editor
Goodbye 42nd Street
1983 · Director
American Obsessions
1983 · Director
