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.

Directed

1. You Killed Me First (1985) — Director
2. Submit to Me (1986) — Director
3. Fingered (1986) — Director
4. The Right Side of My Brain (1984) — Director
5. Submit to Me Now (1987) — Director
6. The Bitches (1992) — Director
7. My Nightmare (1993) — Director
8. The Sewing Circle (1992) — Director
9. The Evil Cameraman (1990) — Director
10. X Is Y (1990) — Director
11. Horoscope (1991) — Director
12. Face to Panty Ratio (2011) — Director
13. Manhattan Love Suicides (1985) — Director
14. Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget (2004) — Director
15. Thrust in Me (1985) — Director
16. Stray Dogs (1985) — Director
17. Extra Action (2007) — Director
18. Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV (1999) — Director
19. I Hate You Now (1985) — Director
20. Woman at the Wheel (1985) — Director
21. King of Sex (1986) — Director
22. Goo (1991) — Director
23. Pierce (1990) — Director
24. Nazi (1991) — Director
25. Catholic (1991) — Director
26. The Hardcore Collection (2012) — Director
27. F.F.P. (2015) — Director
28. Goodbye 42nd Street (1983) — Director
29. Tumble (1991) — Director
30. Medicated (2013) — Director
31. Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove) (1990) — Director
32. Zombie Hunger 2 (1984) — Director
33. Zombie Hunger (1984) — Director
34. The Hardcore Collection (1999) — Director
35. Divine Hammer (1993) — Director
36. Simonland (1984) — Director
37. Extra Shot by Kern (2014) — Director
38. House Sitter (2013) — Director
39. American Obsessions (1983) — Director
40. Shot by Kern (2013) — Director

Also appeared in

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