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