Richard Kern
Known For
Directing
Born
1954-12-20 in 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.
Most Known For
Arakimentari
as Self
IDn4
as Richard Kern
American Nightmare
Submit to Me
My Nightmare
Divine Trash
as Self
Shot By Kern
as Self
Super 8½
as Self
Blank City
as Self
Submit to Me Now
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
as Himself - Interviewee
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
as Himself
Red Spirit Lake
as Sardonia's Worker
Sublapse Video Mag 1
The Advocate for Fagdom
as Self
No Age New York
as Himself
NYC Foetus
as Himself
Kill the Artist
as Self
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
as Self
