Richard Kern
December 20, 1954 (70 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2019 · Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over as Self
- 2015 · Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber as Himself
- 2013 · Shot By Kern as Self
- 2013 · Shot by Kern as Self
- 2012 · The Hardcore Collection as
- 2011 · The Advocate for Fagdom as Self
- 2011 · Blank City as Self
- 2009 · NYC Foetus as Himself
- 2007 · Llik Your Idols as Himself
- 2007 · Kill the Artist as Himself
- 2004 · Arakimentari as Self
- 2002 · D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist as Himself - Interviewee
- 2000 · Divine Trash as Self
- 1998 · Bullet on a Wire as
- 1997 · Lunch on Kern as Himself
- 1997 · Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York as
- 1994 · Super 8½ as Himself
- 1993 · My Nightmare as
- 1993 · Red Spirit Lake as
- 1993 · No Age New York as Himself
- 1991 · IDn4 as Richard Kern
- 1991 · American Nightmare as
- 1989 · We Are Not To Blame as
- 1987 · Submit to Me Now as
- 1986 · Sublapse Video Mag 1 as
- 1986 · Submit to Me as