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. ... (Director)
2014
- Russian Kiss ... (Director)
- Extra Shot by Kern ... (Director)
- The Girl Who Followed Marple ... (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
- Clean ... (Director)
- The Advocate for Fagdom as Self
- Face to Panty Ratio ... (Director)
2009
- NYC Foetus as Himself
2008
- Extra Action ... (Director)
2007
- Llik Your Idols as Himself
- Kill the Artist as Self
- Extra Action ... (Director)
2004
- Arakimentari as Self
- Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002) ... (Director)
- Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget ... (Director)
- Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
- 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
1997
1994
- Super 8½ as Self
- Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent ... (Camera Operator)
1993
- My Nightmare
- Divine Hammer ... (Director)
- No Age New York as Himself
- Red Spirit Lake as Sardonia's Worker
1992
- The Sewing Circle ... (Director)
- The Bitches ... (Camera Operator)
1991
1990
- Pierce ... (Director)
- The Evil Cameraman ... (Director)
- Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove) ... (Director)
- X Is Y ... (Director)
1989
1987
1986
- Submit to Me
- Sublapse Video Mag 1
- King of Sex ... (Director)
- Fingered ... (Director)
1985
- Worm Movie ... (Cinematography)
- You Killed Me First ... (Director)
- I Hate You Now ... (Director)
- Manhattan Love Suicides ... (Writer)
- Woman at the Wheel ... (Director)
- Stray Dogs ... (Director)
- Thrust in Me ... (Director)
1984
- Zombie Hunger ... (Director)
- Destruction ... (Director)
- The Right Side of My Brain ... (Director)
- Zombie Hunger 2 ... (Director)
- Simonland ... (Director)
1983
- Goodbye 42nd Street ... (Director)
- American Obsessions ... (Director)