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)
2013
- House Sitter ... (Director)
- Medicated ... (Director)
- Shot By Kern as Self
- Shot by Kern as Self
- Extra Shot by Kern ... (Director)
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
2008
- Extra Action ... (Director)
2007
- Llik Your Idols as Himself
- Kill the Artist as Himself
- Extra Action ... (Director)
2004
- Arakimentari as Self
- 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
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
- Red Spirit Lake as Sardonia's Worker
- No Age New York as Himself
- My Nightmare
- Divine Hammer ... (Director)
1992
- The Sewing Circle ... (Director)
- The Bitches ... (Director)
1991
1990
- X Is Y ... (Director)
- Pierce ... (Director)
- The Evil Cameraman ... (Director)
- Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove) ... (Director)
1989
1987
1986
- Submit to Me
- Sublapse Video Mag 1
- King of Sex ... (Director)
- Fingered ... (Director)
1985
- Worm Movie ... (Cinematography)
- Manhattan Love Suicides ... (Writer)
- I Hate You Now ... (Director)
- Thrust in Me ... (Director)
- You Killed Me First ... (Director)
- Stray Dogs ... (Director)
- Woman at the Wheel ... (Director)
1984
- The Right Side of My Brain ... (Director)
- Destruction ... (Director)
- Zombie Hunger ... (Writer)
- Zombie Hunger 2 ... (Cinematography)
- Simonland ... (Director)
1983
- Goodbye 42nd Street ... (Director)
- American Obsessions ... (Director)