Known For
Directing
Born
Dec 20, 1954
Place of Birth
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
Credits
73 titles
Richard Kern
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Self
Bathtub
Director
F.F.P.
Director
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
Himself
Russian Kiss
Director
Extra Shot by Kern
Director
The Girl Who Followed Marple
Director
Shot By Kern
Self
Shot by Kern
Self
House Sitter
Director
Medicated
Director
The Hardcore Collection
(archive footage)
The Advocate for Fagdom
Self
Face to Panty Ratio
Director
Blank City
Self
Clean
Director
NYC Foetus
Himself
Kill the Artist
Self
Llik Your Idols
Himself
Extra Action
Director
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
Director
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
Director
Arakimentari
Self
New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern
Director
Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
Cutter
Director
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Himself - Interviewee
Divine Trash
Self
The Hardcore Collection
Director
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV
Director
The Hardcore Collection
Director
Bullet on a Wire
Lunch on Kern
Himself
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
Camera Operator
Super 8½
Self
My Nightmare
Divine Hammer
Director
No Age New York
Himself
Red Spirit Lake
Sardonia's Worker
The Sewing Circle
Director
The Bitches
Camera Operator
IDn4
Richard Kern
Goo
Director
Catholic
Director
Horoscope
Director
American Nightmare
Tumble
Director
Nazi
Director
X Is Y
Director