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

Born: Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA, 1954-12-20

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1986	Submit to Me		53
2	1986	Sublapse Video Mag 1		80
3	1987	Submit to Me Now		46
4	1989	We Are Not To Blame		0
5	1991	American Nightmare		25
6	1991	IDn4	Richard Kern	0
7	1993	Red Spirit Lake		58
8	1993	No Age New York	Himself	70
9	1993	My Nightmare		64
10	1994	Super 8½	Self	59
11	1997	Lunch on Kern	Himself	0
12	1997	Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York		0
13	1998	Bullet on a Wire		0
14	2000	Divine Trash	Self	73
15	2002	D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist	Himself - Interviewee	47
16	2004	Arakimentari	Self	63
17	2007	Kill the Artist	Himself	20
18	2007	Llik Your Idols	Himself	46
19	2009	NYC Foetus	Himself	60
20	2011	Blank City	Self	71
21	2011	The Advocate for Fagdom	Self	53
22	2012	The Hardcore Collection	(archive footage)	77
23	2013	Shot by Kern	Self	0
24	2015	Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber	Himself	73
25	2019	Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over	Self	68

Richard Kern

Film

Television