Richard Kern

Richard Kern

Known for

Directing

Born

December 20, 1954 (age 71)

Birthplace

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA

Biography

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 work

Divine Trash
Divine Trash
2000
Submit to Me
Submit to Me
1985
You Killed Me First
You Killed Me First
1985
Arakimentari
Arakimentari
2004
Submit to Me Now
Submit to Me Now
1987
My Nightmare
My Nightmare
1993
Blank City
Blank City
2011
X Is Y
X Is Y
1990
The Sewing Circle
The Sewing Circle
1992
Super 8½
Super 8½
1994

Filmography

  1. 2019

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    as Self

  2. 2019

    Bathtub

    Director

  3. 2015

    F.F.P.

    Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography

  4. 2015

  5. 2014

    Russian Kiss

    Director

  6. 2014

  7. 2014

  8. 2013

    Shot by Kern

    as Self, Director

  9. 2013

    Shot By KernTV

    as Self (15 episodes)

  10. 2013

    House Sitter

    Director

  11. 2013

    Medicated

    Director, Editor

  12. 2011

  13. 2011

  14. 2011

    Blank City

    as Self

  15. 2011

    Clean

    Director

  16. 2009

    NYC Foetus

    as Himself

  17. 2007

  18. 2007

    Llik Your Idols

    as Himself

  19. 2004

  20. 2004

  21. 2004

  22. 2004

  23. 2003

    Cutter

    Director

  24. 2002

  25. 2000

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