Director
Richard Kern
71 years · Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA · 63 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 63
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019 · Self
On Kanopy
Bathtub
2019 · Director
F.F.P.
2015 · Producer, Editor
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015 · Himself
Russian Kiss
2014 · Director
Extra Shot by Kern
2014 · Director
Shot by Kern
2013 · Self, Director
House Sitter
2013 · Director
Medicated
2013 · Editor, Director
The Hardcore Collection
2012 · (archive footage), Director
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011 · Self
On Midnight Pulp
Face to Panty Ratio
2011 · Director
Blank City
2011 · Self
On Kanopy
Clean
2011 · Director
NYC Foetus
2009 · Himself
Kill the Artist
2007 · Self
Llik Your Idols
2007 · Himself
Extra Action
2007 · Director, Writer
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
2004 · Director
Arakimentari
2004 · Self
On Kanopy
Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
2004 · Actor
New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern
2004 · Director
Cutter
2003 · Director
Divine Trash
2000 · Self