Richard Kern
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.
Acting (21 movies)
Lunch on Kern
1997
Arakimentari
2004
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011
Llik Your Idols
2007
Red Spirit Lake
1993
IDn4
1991
Bullet on a Wire
1998
My Nightmare
1993
Submit to Me
1986
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997
Shot by Kern
2013
Submit to Me Now
1987
The Hardcore Collection
2012
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
NYC Foetus
2009
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015
Super 8½
1994
American Nightmare
1991
Blank City
2011
Divine Trash
2000
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
Directing (48 movies)
Extra Action
2008
The Evil Cameraman
1990
Pierce
1990
Thrust in Me
1985
My Nightmare
1993
X Is Y
1990
Fingered
1986
The Right Side of My Brain
1984
You Killed Me First
1985
Stray Dogs
1985
Submit to Me Now
1987
Nazi
1991
Woman at the Wheel
1985
I Hate You Now
1985
Submit to Me
1986
The Sewing Circle
1992
Horoscope
1991
Face to Panty Ratio
2011
Simonland
1984
King of Sex
1986
Goodbye 42nd Street
1983
Manhattan Love Suicides
1985
The Hardcore Collection
2012
The Bitches
1992
Goo
1991
Extra Shot by Kern
2013
Tumble
1991
Catholic
1991
House Sitter
2013
American Obsessions
1983
Shot by Kern
2013
Extra Action
2007
Medicated
2013
Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)
1990
F.F.P.
2015
Zombie Hunger 2
1984
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
2004
The Girl Who Followed Marple
2014
Zombie Hunger
1984
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV
1999
Clean
2011
Cutter
2003
The Hardcore Collection
1999
Destruction
1984
New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern
2004
Divine Hammer
1993
Bathtub
2019
Russian Kiss
2014
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Zombie Hunger 2 | 1984 | Producer |
| Zombie Hunger | 1984 | Writer |
| Zombie Hunger | 1984 | Producer |
| Zombie Hunger 2 | 1984 | Writer |
| Destruction | 1984 | Writer |
| The Right Side of My Brain | 1984 | Writer |
| The Right Side of My Brain | 1984 | Producer |
| Manhattan Love Suicides | 1985 | Writer |
| I Hate You Now | 1985 | Writer |
| You Killed Me First | 1985 | Writer |
| Stray Dogs | 1985 | Writer |
| Woman at the Wheel | 1985 | Writer |
| You Killed Me First | 1985 | Producer |
| Thrust in Me | 1985 | Writer |
| Submit to Me | 1986 | Screenplay |
| Submit to Me | 1986 | Producer |
| King of Sex | 1986 | Writer |
| Fingered | 1986 | Writer |
| Submit to Me Now | 1987 | Producer |
| Submit to Me Now | 1987 | Screenplay |
| The Evil Cameraman | 1990 | Writer |
| X Is Y | 1990 | Writer |
| Nazi | 1991 | Writer |
| Horoscope | 1991 | Writer |
| Tumble | 1991 | Writer |
| Catholic | 1991 | Writer |
| Goo | 1991 | Producer |
| The Bitches | 1992 | Writer |
| The Sewing Circle | 1992 | Writer |
| My Nightmare | 1993 | Writer |
| Extra Action | 2007 | Writer |
| Extra Action | 2007 | Producer |
| F.F.P. | 2015 | Producer |