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Richard Kern

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Birthdate

1954-12-20 (Age: 72)

Place of Birth

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA

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.

Filmography (26)

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

2019
⭐ 7.2 Role: Himself

Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

2015
⭐ 0 Role: Self

Shot by Kern

2013
⭐ 7.7 Role: (archive footage)

The Hardcore Collection

2012
⭐ 5.3 Role: Self

The Advocate for Fagdom

2011
⭐ 7.1 Role: Self

Blank City

2011
⭐ 6.0 Role: Himself

NYC Foetus

2009
⭐ 2.0 Role: Self

Kill the Artist

2007
⭐ 4.0 Role: Himself

Llik Your Idols

2007
⭐ 6.4 Role: Self

Arakimentari

2004
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation

2004
No Image
⭐ 5.5 Role: Himself - Interviewee

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

2002
⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

Divine Trash

2000
⭐ 7.0 Role: Unknown

Bullet on a Wire

1998
⭐ 0 Role: Himself

Lunch on Kern

1997