Richard Kern
Known for: Directing
Born: December 20, 1954
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
71 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
7.0
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
NR
Bathtub
2019
3.3
F.F.P.
2015
7.2
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015
NR
Russian Kiss
2014
NR
Extra Shot by Kern
2014NR
The Girl Who Followed Marple
2014
NR
Shot by Kern
2013
NR
Shot By Kern
2013
NR
House Sitter
2013
9.0
Medicated
2013
7.7
The Hardcore Collection
2012
6.0
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011
4.1
Face to Panty Ratio
2011
6.9
Blank City
2011
NR
Clean
2011
6.0
NYC Foetus
2009
2.0
Kill the Artist
2007
4.6
Llik Your Idols
2007
4.2
Extra Action
2007
8.8
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
2004
NR
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
2004
6.5
Arakimentari
2004
NR
Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
2004
NR
New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern
2004
NR
Cutter
20035.6
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
2002
7.2
Divine Trash
2000
NR
The Hardcore Collection
2000
8.9
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV
1999
2.0
The Hardcore Collection
1999
7.0
Bullet on a Wire
1998
NR
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997NR
Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
1994
6.0
Super 8½
1994
6.6
My Nightmare
1993
6.0
Divine Hammer
1993
5.7
Red Spirit Lake
19938.0
No Age New York
1993
4.7
The Sewing Circle
1992
5.8
The Bitches
1992
NR
IDn4
1991
5.7
Goo
1991
2.3
American Nightmare
1991
6.5
Nazi
1991
4.8
Horoscope
1991
7.5
Tumble
1991
5.8
Catholic
1991
4.1
X Is Y
1990
5.7
The Evil Cameraman
19906.4
Pierce
1990
10.0
Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)
19909.0
We Are Not To Blame
1989
5.0
Submit to Me Now
1987
5.4
Fingered
1986
8.0
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
4.3
King of Sex
1986
6.0
Thrust in Me
1985
5.2
Submit to Me
1985
4.7
You Killed Me First
1985
6.7
Stray Dogs
1985
6.7
Woman at the Wheel
1985
6.5
I Hate You Now
1985
5.7
Manhattan Love Suicides
1985
6.5
Worm Movie
1985
4.8
The Right Side of My Brain
1984
NR
Simonland
19847.0
Zombie Hunger 2
1984
9.0
Zombie Hunger
1984
NR
Destruction
1984
7.0
Goodbye 42nd Street
1983
NR
American Obsessions
1983