Richard Kern
Directing
Born: 1954-12-20 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
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.
Known For
Arakimentari
Self
IDn4
Richard Kern
Blank City
Self
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
Himself
Divine Trash
Self
American Nightmare
My Nightmare
Super 8½
Self
Shot By Kern
Self
The Advocate for Fagdom
Self
Submit to Me Now
Submit to Me
Llik Your Idols
Himself
Red Spirit Lake
Sardonia's Worker
Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Self
Shot by Kern
Self
No Poster
We Are Not To Blame
NYC Foetus
Himself
Bullet on a Wire
Sublapse Video Mag 1
Kill the Artist
Self
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
The Hardcore Collection
(archive footage)