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.
Lunch on Kern
(Himself)
Arakimentari
(Self)
The Advocate for Fagdom
(Self)
Llik Your Idols
(Himself)
Red Spirit Lake
We Are Not To Blame
IDn4
(Richard Kern)
No Age New York
(Himself)
Bullet on a Wire
My Nightmare
Submit to Me
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
Shot by Kern
(Self)
Submit to Me Now
The Hardcore Collection
((archive footage))
Sublapse Video Mag 1
NYC Foetus
(Himself)
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
(Himself)
Super 8½
(Self)
American Nightmare
Blank City
(Self)
Divine Trash
(Self)
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
(Himself - Interviewee)
Kill the Artist
(Himself)
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
(Self)
Shot By Kern
(Self)
Extra Action
(Director)
The Evil Cameraman
(Director)
Pierce
(Director)
Thrust in Me
(Director)
My Nightmare
(Director)
X Is Y
(Director)
Fingered
(Director)
The Right Side of My Brain
(Director)
You Killed Me First
(Director)
Stray Dogs
(Director)
Submit to Me Now
(Director)
Nazi
(Director)
Woman at the Wheel
(Director)
I Hate You Now
(Director)
Submit to Me
(Director)
The Sewing Circle
(Director)
Horoscope
(Director)
Face to Panty Ratio
(Director)
Simonland
(Director)
King of Sex
(Director)
Manhattan Love Suicides
(Writer)
Goodbye 42nd Street
(Director)
Manhattan Love Suicides
(Director)
The Hardcore Collection
(Director)
The Bitches
(Camera Operator)
The Bitches
(Writer)
The Bitches
(Director)
Death Valley '69
(Director)
Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
(Camera Operator)
Goo
(Director)
Goo
(Producer)
Goo
(Editor)
Fingered
(Writer)
Fingered
(Director of Photography)
Extra Shot by Kern
(Director)
Tumble
(Director)
Catholic
(Director)
House Sitter
(Director)
American Obsessions
(Director)
Shot by Kern
(Director)
Extra Action
(Director)
Medicated
(Editor)
Medicated
(Director)
Submit to Me
(Screenplay)
Submit to Me Now
(Director of Photography)
Submit to Me Now
(Producer)
Submit to Me Now
(Editor)
Submit to Me
(Producer)
Submit to Me Now
(Screenplay)
Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)
(Director)
Worm Movie
(Cinematography)
The Right Side of My Brain
(Writer)
The Right Side of My Brain
(Producer)
I Hate You Now
(Writer)
Extra Action
(Writer)
Nazi
(Writer)
My Nightmare
(Writer)
F.F.P.
(Producer)
F.F.P.
(Editor)
King of Sex
(Writer)
Horoscope
(Writer)
X Is Y
(Writer)
Tumble
(Writer)
Catholic
(Writer)
The Evil Cameraman
(Writer)
F.F.P.
(Director)
You Killed Me First
(Writer)
Zombie Hunger 2
(Director)
Zombie Hunger 2
(Producer)
The Sewing Circle
(Writer)
F.F.P.
(Cinematography)
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
(Director)
The Girl Who Followed Marple
(Director)
Extra Action
(Producer)
Thrust in Me
(Writer)
Zombie Hunger
(Director)
Zombie Hunger 2
(Cinematography)
Zombie Hunger
(Writer)
Zombie Hunger
(Producer)
Stray Dogs
(Writer)
Zombie Hunger 2
(Writer)
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV
(Director)
Woman at the Wheel
(Writer)
Clean
(Director)
Cutter
(Director)
The Hardcore Collection
(Director)
You Killed Me First
(Producer)
Destruction
(Director)
Destruction
(Writer)
Destruction
(Editor)
New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern
(Director)
Divine Hammer
(Director)