Richard Kern

ActorDirectorCinematographerWriterEditor Dec 20 (age 71) Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA 1983–2019 (36 year career)

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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 perve…

Known For

Film

Divine Trash

Self

Film

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

Director

Film

Blank City

Self

Film

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

Director

Film

Arakimentari

Self

Film

My Nightmare

6.4 1993

Film

Submit to Me

5.1 1986

Film

Super 8½

Self

Filmography

Acting (26)

Movies (25)

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

2019

as Self

6.8

Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

2015

as Himself

7.2

Shot by Kern

2013

as Self

Blank City

2011

as Self

7.1

The Advocate for Fagdom

as Self

NYC Foetus

as Himself

Kill the Artist

as Self

Llik Your Idols

as Himself

Arakimentari

as Self

Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation

2004

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

2002

as Himself - Interviewee

Divine Trash

as Self

Bullet on a Wire

Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

1997

Lunch on Kern

1997

as Himself

Super 8½

as Self

My Nightmare

Red Spirit Lake

as Sardonia's Worker

No Age New York

as Himself

American Nightmare

IDn4

as Richard Kern

We Are Not To Blame

Submit to Me Now

Submit to Me

Sublapse Video Mag 1

Television (1)

Shot By Kern

2013

as Self

Crew (61)

Movies (61)

Bathtub

2019

Director

F.F.P.

2015

Director

3.3

The Girl Who Followed Marple

2014

Director

Extra Shot by Kern

2014

Director

Russian Kiss

2014

Director

Shot by Kern

2013

Director

House Sitter

2013

Director

Medicated

2013

Director

Clean

2011

Director

Face to Panty Ratio

2011

Director

4.1

Extra Action

2008

Director

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

2004

Director

8.7

New York Underground Collection - Richard Kern

2004

Director

Cutter

2003

Director

The Hardcore Collection

2000

Director

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

1999

Director

8.9

The Hardcore Collection

1999

Director

2.0

Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

1994

Camera Operator

My Nightmare

Director

My Nightmare

Writer

Divine Hammer

Director

The Sewing Circle

Director

Goo

Editor

Horoscope

Director

Nazi

Director

Catholic

Director

Tumble

Director

The Evil Cameraman

Director

Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)

1990

Director

Pierce

Director

X Is Y

Director

Submit to Me Now

Director

Submit to Me Now

Director of Photography

Submit to Me Now

Editor

Submit to Me Now

Producer

Submit to Me Now

Screenplay

Submit to Me

Director

Submit to Me

Producer

Submit to Me

Screenplay

King of Sex

Director

Woman at the Wheel

Director

Woman at the Wheel

Writer

Worm Movie

Cinematography

Manhattan Love Suicides

1985

Director

4.9

Manhattan Love Suicides

Writer

You Killed Me First

Director

You Killed Me First

Producer

You Killed Me First

Writer

Thrust in Me

Director

Thrust in Me

Writer

Stray Dogs

Director

Stray Dogs

Writer

I Hate You Now

Director

I Hate You Now

Writer

The Right Side of My Brain

1984

Director

4.8

Destruction

1984

Director

Zombie Hunger 2

1984

Director

Zombie Hunger

1984

Director

Simonland

1984

Director

Goodbye 42nd Street

1983

Director

5.0

American Obsessions

1983

Director