Richard Kern
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- December 20, 1954, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
- Movies
- 73
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2019 | Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over | Self |
| 2015 | Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber | Himself |
| 2013 | Shot by Kern | Self |
| 2012 | The Hardcore Collection | (archive footage) |
| 2011 | The Advocate for Fagdom | Self |
| 2011 | Blank City | Self |
| 2009 | NYC Foetus | Himself |
| 2007 | Kill the Artist | Self |
| 2007 | Llik Your Idols | Himself |
| 2004 | Arakimentari | Self |
| 2004 | Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation | |
| 2002 | D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist | Self - Interviewee |
| 2000 | Divine Trash | Self |
| 1998 | Bullet on a Wire | |
| 1997 | Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York | |
| 1994 | Super 8½ | Self |
| 1993 | My Nightmare | |
| 1993 | Red Spirit Lake | Sardonia's Worker |
| 1993 | No Age New York | Self |
| 1991 | IDn4 | Richard Kern |
| 1991 | American Nightmare | |
| 1989 | We Are Not To Blame | |
| 1987 | Submit to Me Now | |
| 1986 | Sublapse Video Mag 1 | |
| 1985 | Submit to Me |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2019 | Bathtub | Director |
| 2015 | F.F.P. | Producer, Director |
| 2014 | Russian Kiss | Director |
| 2014 | Extra Shot by Kern | Director |
| 2014 | The Girl Who Followed Marple | Director |
| 2013 | Shot by Kern | Director |
| 2013 | House Sitter | Director |
| 2013 | Medicated | Director |
| 2012 | The Hardcore Collection | Director |
| 2011 | Face to Panty Ratio | Director |
| 2011 | Clean | Director |
| 2007 | Extra Action | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2004 | Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget | Director |
| 2004 | New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern | Director |
| 2003 | Cutter | Director |
| 2000 | The Hardcore Collection | Director |
| 1999 | Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV | Director |
| 1999 | The Hardcore Collection | Director |
| 1993 | My Nightmare | Director, Writer |
| 1993 | Divine Hammer | Director |
| 1992 | The Sewing Circle | Director, Writer |
| 1992 | The Bitches | Director, Writer |
| 1991 | Goo | Director, Producer |
| 1991 | Nazi | Director, Writer |
| 1991 | Horoscope | Director, Writer |
| 1991 | Catholic | Director, Writer |
| 1991 | Tumble | Director, Writer |
| 1990 | X Is Y | Director, Writer |
| 1990 | The Evil Cameraman | Director, Writer |
| 1990 | Pierce | Director |
| 1990 | Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove) | Director |
| 1987 | Submit to Me Now | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1986 | Fingered | Director, Writer |
| 1986 | King of Sex | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | Thrust in Me | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | Stray Dogs | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | You Killed Me First | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1985 | Submit to Me | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1985 | Woman at the Wheel | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | I Hate You Now | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | Manhattan Love Suicides | Writer, Director |
| 1984 | The Right Side of My Brain | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1984 | Simonland | Director |
| 1984 | Zombie Hunger | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 1984 | Zombie Hunger 2 | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1984 | Destruction | Director, Writer |
| 1983 | Goodbye 42nd Street | Director |
| 1983 | American Obsessions | Director |
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