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
All Movies (26)
- Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over2019 · as Self
- Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber2015 · as Himself
- Shot by Kern2013 · as Self
- The Hardcore Collection2012 · as (archive footage)
- The Advocate for Fagdom2011 · as Self
- Blank City2011 · as Self
- NYC Foetus2009 · as Himself
- Kill the Artist2007 · as Self
- Llik Your Idols2007 · as Himself
- Arakimentari2004 · as Self
- Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation2004
- D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist2002 · as Himself - Interviewee
- Divine Trash2000 · as Self
- Bullet on a Wire1998
- Lunch on Kern1997 · as Himself
- Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York1997
- Super 8½1994 · as Self
- My Nightmare1993
- Red Spirit Lake1993 · as Sardonia's Worker
- No Age New York1993 · as Himself
- IDn41991 · as Richard Kern
- American Nightmare1991
- We Are Not To Blame1989
- Submit to Me Now1987
- Sublapse Video Mag 11986
- Submit to Me1986
All TV Shows (1)
- Shot By Kern2013 · as Self