Richard Kern
Born: 1954-12-20 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2019
- Bathtub ... (Director)
- Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over as Self
2015
- Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber as Himself
- F.F.P. ... (Producer)
2014
- Russian Kiss ... (Director)
- The Girl Who Followed Marple ... (Director)
- Extra Shot by Kern ... (Director)
2013
- Shot By Kern as Self
- House Sitter ... (Director)
- Medicated ... (Director)
- Shot by Kern as Self
2012
- The Hardcore Collection as (archive footage)
2011
- Blank City as Self
- The Advocate for Fagdom as Self
- Clean ... (Director)
- Face to Panty Ratio ... (Director)
2009
- NYC Foetus as Himself
2007
- Kill the Artist as Self
- Llik Your Idols as Himself
- Extra Action ... (Director)
2004
- Arakimentari as Self
- Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
- Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002) ... (Director)
- Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget ... (Director)
- New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern ... (Director)
2003
- Cutter ... (Director)
2002
- D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist as Himself - Interviewee
2000
- Divine Trash as Self
- The Hardcore Collection ... (Director)
1999
- The Hardcore Collection ... (Director)
- Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV ... (Director)
1998
1994
- Super 8½ as Self
- Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent ... (Camera Operator)
1993
- My Nightmare
- Divine Hammer ... (Director)
- Red Spirit Lake as Sardonia's Worker
- No Age New York as Himself
1992
- The Sewing Circle ... (Director)
- The Bitches ... (Director)
1991
1990
- Pierce ... (Director)
- Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove) ... (Director)
- The Evil Cameraman ... (Director)
- X Is Y ... (Director)
1989
1987
1986
- Submit to Me
- King of Sex ... (Director)
- Sublapse Video Mag 1
- Fingered ... (Director)
1985
- Worm Movie ... (Cinematography)
- Manhattan Love Suicides ... (Writer)
- I Hate You Now ... (Director)
- Stray Dogs ... (Director)
- Thrust in Me ... (Director)
- You Killed Me First ... (Director)
- Woman at the Wheel ... (Director)
1984
- Destruction ... (Director)
- Zombie Hunger ... (Writer)
- The Right Side of My Brain ... (Director)
- Simonland ... (Director)
- Zombie Hunger 2 ... (Cinematography)
1983
- Goodbye 42nd Street ... (Director)
- American Obsessions ... (Director)