Directing · Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA · Born December 20, 1954
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.
MovieLydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
as Self
MovieDiary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015
as Himself
MovieShot by Kern
2013
as Self
TVShot By Kern
2013
as Self
MovieThe Hardcore Collection
2012
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Advocate for Fagdom
2011
as Self
MovieBlank City
2011
as Self
MovieNYC Foetus
2009
as Himself
MovieKill the Artist
2007
as Self
MovieLlik Your Idols
2007
as Himself
MovieArakimentari
2004
as Self
MovieRuss Meyer: King of Sexploitation
2004
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
2002
as Himself - Interviewee
MovieDivine Trash
2000
as Self
MovieBullet on a Wire
1998
MovieLunch on Kern
1997
as Himself
MovieRichard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997
MovieSuper 8½
1994
as Self
MovieMy Nightmare
1993
MovieRed Spirit Lake
1993
as Sardonia's Worker
No Age New York
1993
as Himself
MovieIDn4
1991
as Richard Kern
MovieAmerican Nightmare
1991
We Are Not To Blame
1989
MovieSubmit to Me Now
1987
MovieSublapse Video Mag 1
1986
MovieSubmit to Me
1986
