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