Richard Kern
Known for: Directing
Born: December 19, 1954 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
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
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Lunch on Kern
Himself
Arakimentari
Self
The Advocate for Fagdom
Self
Llik Your Idols
Himself
Red Spirit Lake
Sardonia's Worker
We Are Not To Blame
IDn4
Richard Kern
No Age New York
Himself
Bullet on a Wire
My Nightmare
Submit to Me
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
Shot by Kern
Self
Submit to Me Now
The Hardcore Collection
(archive footage)
Sublapse Video Mag 1
NYC Foetus
Himself
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
Himself
Super 8½
Self
American Nightmare
Blank City
Self
Divine Trash
Self
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Himself - Interviewee
Kill the Artist
Self