Richard Kern

Known for DirectingBorn 1954-12-20 (age 71)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)

We Are Not To Blame

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

Zombie Hunger

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

No Age New York

Sublapse Video Mag 1

The Hardcore Collection

Tumble

Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

Divine Trash

Blank City

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

Bullet on a Wire

Zombie Hunger 2

Goodbye 42nd Street

My Nightmare

Arakimentari

Nazi

Stray Dogs

Woman at the Wheel

Worm Movie

Pierce

I Hate You Now

NYC Foetus

Divine Hammer

Super 8½

Catholic

Red Spirit Lake

Thrust in Me

Goo

The Bitches

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

The Advocate for Fagdom

The Evil Cameraman

Manhattan Love Suicides

Fingered

Submit to Me

The Right Side of My Brain

The Sewing Circle

Horoscope

Submit to Me Now

You Killed Me First

Extra Action

Face to Panty Ratio

King of Sex

Llik Your Idols

X Is Y