Richard Kern

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

Himself

Lunch on Kern

Self

Arakimentari

Self

The Advocate for Fagdom

Himself

Llik Your Idols

Red Spirit Lake

We Are Not To Blame

Richard Kern

IDn4

Himself

No Age New York

Bullet on a Wire

My Nightmare

Submit to Me

Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

Self

Shot by Kern

Submit to Me Now

The Hardcore Collection

Sublapse Video Mag 1

Himself

NYC Foetus

Himself

Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

Self

Super 8½

American Nightmare

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Blank City

Self

Divine Trash

Himself - Interviewee

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

Himself

Kill the Artist

Self

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over