Richard Kern
Director
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
Divine Trash
as Self 2000
Submit to Me
1986
Arakimentari
as Self 2004
Submit to Me Now
1987
My Nightmare
1993
Blank City
as Self 2011
Super 8½
as Self 1994
Red Spirit Lake
as Sardonia's Worker 1993
Llik Your Idols
as Himself 2007
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
as Self 2019
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
as Himself - Interviewee 2002
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
as Himself 2015
The Advocate for Fagdom
as Self 2011
The Hardcore Collection
as (archive footage) 2012
American Nightmare
1991
Kill the Artist
as Self 2007
No Age New York
as Himself 1993