Richard Kern
Directing • Born 1954-12-20
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
26 credits
Lunch on Kern
Movie • 1997
Himself
Arakimentari
Movie • 2004
Self
The Advocate for Fagdom
Movie • 2011
Self
Llik Your Idols
Movie • 2007
Himself
Red Spirit Lake
Movie • 1993
Sardonia's Worker
We Are Not To Blame
Movie • 1989
IDn4
Movie • 1991
Richard Kern
No Age New York
Movie • 1993
Himself
Bullet on a Wire
Movie • 1998
My Nightmare
Movie • 1993
Submit to Me
Movie • 1986
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
Movie • 1997
Shot by Kern
Movie • 2013
Self
Submit to Me Now
Movie • 1987
The Hardcore Collection
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Sublapse Video Mag 1
Movie • 1986
NYC Foetus
Movie • 2009
Himself
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
Movie • 2015
Himself
Super 8½
Movie • 1994
Self
American Nightmare
Movie • 1991
Blank City
Movie • 2011
Self
Divine Trash
Movie • 2000
Self
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Movie • 2002
Himself - Interviewee
Kill the Artist
Movie • 2007
Self
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Movie • 2019
Self
Shot By Kern
TV • 2013
Self