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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.801 |
| Birthday | 1954-12-20 |
| Place of Birth | Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA |
| Also Known As | R. Kern, 理查德·克恩, |
2004
Arakimentari
6.3/16
A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.
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Arakimentari
2011
The Advocate for Fagdom
5.333/3
The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts th...
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The Advocate for Fagdom
2007
Llik Your Idols
4.6/5
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
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Llik Your Idols
1993
Red Spirit Lake
5.7/3
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arri...
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Red Spirit Lake
1993
No Age New York
7/1
A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick Zedd...
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No Age New York
1989
We Are Not To Blame
0/0
The apparent strangeness of two sisters becomes easily understood as they wreak appropriate revenge on one of their abusive husbands, by tying him up...
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We Are Not To Blame
1991
IDn4
0/0
I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real...
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IDn4
1985
Submit to Me
5.3/20
A No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide.
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Submit to Me
1993
My Nightmare
6.4/14
The filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery.
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My Nightmare
1987
Submit to Me Now
4.6/16
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death...
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Submit to Me Now
2009
NYC Foetus
0/0
A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring in...
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NYC Foetus
2015
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
7/3
A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a comeback...
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Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
1994
Super 8½
5.7/11
A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial b...
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Super 8½
1991
American Nightmare
2.5/2
A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with candles...
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American Nightmare
2011
Blank City
6.9/11
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circu...
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Blank City
2000
Divine Trash
7.3/33
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
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Divine Trash
2002
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
4.7/5
This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose...
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D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
2007
Kill the Artist
2/1
Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion...
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Kill the Artist
2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
7/5
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preemin...
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
1998
Bullet on a Wire
0/0
An unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after setting off the events that landed her there.
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Bullet on a Wire
1997
Lunch on Kern
0/0
Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid
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Lunch on Kern
1997
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
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Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc. Featur...
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Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
2013
Shot by Kern
0/0
Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot hundre...
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Shot by Kern
2012
The Hardcore Collection
7.7/3
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...
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