Richard Kern
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.
The Advocate for Fagdom
as SelfThe Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare...
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Submit to Me Now
as uncreditedOddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man...
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Arakimentari
as SelfA look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese...
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Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
as HimselfA documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his...
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Sublapse Video Mag 1
as uncreditedVideo Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern,...
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Blank City
as SelfIn the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never...
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Lunch on Kern
as HimselfFeaturing Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib]...
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Divine Trash
as SelfThe life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
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Submit to Me
as uncreditedA No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide.
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Llik Your Idols
as HimselfDiscover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting,...
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Super 8½
as HimselfA down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary...
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Shot by Kern
as SelfSeasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models,...
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
as SelfThe first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic...
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American Nightmare
as uncreditedA video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on...
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My Nightmare
as uncreditedThe filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery.
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IDn4
as Richard KernI am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I...
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Bullet on a Wire
as uncreditedAn unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after...
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Red Spirit Lake
as uncreditedAfter a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness...
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NYC Foetus
as HimselfA documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos,...
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Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
as uncreditedHaxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo...
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The Hardcore Collection
as uncreditedThis DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia...
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Shot By Kern
as SelfSeasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models,...
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