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
- Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over as Self
- Bathtub ... (Director)
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
- The Advocate for Fagdom as Self
- Clean ... (Director)
- Blank City as Self
- Face to Panty Ratio ... (Director)
2009
- NYC Foetus as Himself
2007
- Llik Your Idols as Himself
- Kill the Artist as Self
- Extra Action ... (Director)
2004
- Arakimentari as Self
- Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
- 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
- Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV ... (Director)
- The Hardcore Collection ... (Director)
1998
1994
- Super 8½ as Self
- Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent ... (Camera Operator)
1993
- No Age New York as Himself
- Divine Hammer ... (Director)
- My Nightmare
- Red Spirit Lake as Sardonia's Worker
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
- Sublapse Video Mag 1
- King of Sex ... (Director)
- Fingered ... (Director)
1985
- Worm Movie ... (Cinematography)
- Submit to Me
- Woman at the Wheel ... (Director)
- Manhattan Love Suicides ... (Writer)
- You Killed Me First ... (Director)
- I Hate You Now ... (Director)
- Stray Dogs ... (Director)
- Thrust in Me ... (Director)
1984
- Destruction ... (Director)
- Zombie Hunger ... (Writer)
- Zombie Hunger 2 ... (Cinematography)
- Simonland ... (Director)
- The Right Side of My Brain ... (Director)
1983
- Goodbye 42nd Street ... (Director)
- American Obsessions ... (Director)