Richard Kern
Directing
Born December 20, 1954 · 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.
Directed (48)
Bathtub
2019
F.F.P.
2015
Russian Kiss
2014
The Girl Who Followed Marple
2014
Shot by Kern
2013
Extra Shot by Kern
2013
House Sitter
2013
Medicated
2013
The Hardcore Collection
2012
Face to Panty Ratio
2011
Clean
2011
Extra Action
2008
Extra Action
2007
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
2004
New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern
2004
Cutter
2003
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV
1999
The Hardcore Collection
1999
My Nightmare
1993
Divine Hammer
1993
The Sewing Circle
1992
The Bitches
1992
Goo
1991
Nazi
1991
Horoscope
1991
Catholic
1991
Tumble
1991
X Is Y
1990
The Evil Cameraman
1990
Pierce
1990
Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)
1990
Submit to Me Now
1987
Fingered
1986
Submit to Me
1986
King of Sex
1986
Thrust in Me
1985
Stray Dogs
1985
You Killed Me First
1985
Woman at the Wheel
1985
I Hate You Now
1985
Manhattan Love Suicides
1985
The Right Side of My Brain
1984
Simonland
1984
Zombie Hunger 2
1984
Zombie Hunger
1984
Destruction
1984
Goodbye 42nd Street
1983
American Obsessions
1983
Acting (25)
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015
Shot by Kern
2013
The Hardcore Collection
2012
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011
Blank City
2011
NYC Foetus
2009
Kill the Artist
2007
Llik Your Idols
2007
Arakimentari
2004
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
2002
Divine Trash
2000
Bullet on a Wire
1998
Lunch on Kern
1997
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997
Super 8½
1994
My Nightmare
1993
Red Spirit Lake
1993
No Age New York
1993
IDn4
1991
American Nightmare
1991
We Are Not To Blame
1989
Submit to Me Now
1987
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Submit to Me
1986