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.
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Self
2019
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
Himself
2015
Shot by Kern
Self
2013
Shot By Kern
Self · (15 episodes)
2013
The Hardcore Collection
(archive footage)
2012
The Advocate for Fagdom
Self
2011
Blank City
Self
2011
NYC Foetus
Himself
2009
Llik Your Idols
Himself
2007
Kill the Artist
Himself
2007
Arakimentari
Self
2004
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Himself - Interviewee
2002
Divine Trash
Self
2000
Bullet on a Wire
1998
Lunch on Kern
Himself
1997
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997
Super 8½
Self
1994
My Nightmare
1993
Red Spirit Lake
1993
No Age New York
Himself
1993
IDn4
Richard Kern
1991
American Nightmare
1991
We Are Not To Blame
1989
Submit to Me Now
1987
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Submit to Me
1986