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Richard Kern

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.

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Movies Made By Richard Kern (41)

F.F.P. (2015)

Controversial photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern's ode to podophilia, aka foot fetishism. ...

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Extra Shot by Kern (2014)

The world-famous erotic photographer Richard Kern manages like no other to capture exciting girls in their most intimate moments. Graceful, submissive, casual, provocative and desirable - this film shows the most enchanting amateur models that the New York ...

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The Girl Who Followed Marple (2014)

Part showcase for the fashion label Atelier E. B., part infomercial for a particular brand of menstrual cup, "The Girl who follows Marple" envelopes it's commercial underpinnings in the familiarity of a made-for-TV thriller and the complicit voyeurism that ...

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Shot by Kern (2013)

Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot hundreds of women in their homes and apartments, capturing them even during their most intimate moments, includi ...

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House Sitter (2013)

House Sitter is one of many new short films on the 2013 DVD Extra Shot by Kern. ...

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Medicated (2013)

Between 2010 and 2018, Kern interviewed women about the medications they used and the effects of those meds on their outlook. ...

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Face to Panty Ratio (2011)

Face to Panty Ratio is a 3 minute short film by New York based photographer and cult director Richard Kern featuring close ups of girls' faces and panties. ...

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Clean (2011)

Clean is an experimental short film by NY filmmaker Richard Kern. ...

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Extra Action (2008)

Photographer Richard Kern asks his models to "roll around and do something interesting for a few minutes". Extra Action documents 60 of these innocent amateur incidents set to an original musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. ...

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Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget (2004)

A collection of Marilyn Manson's music videos. ...

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Cutter (2003)

A woman talks about why she scarifies herself and shows it. ...

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Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV (1999)

God Is in the T.V. is the second video album by Marilyn Manson. It features all 13 music videos Marilyn Manson spawned between July 1994 and November 1999, as well as uncensored bonus footage from the production of "The Dope Show" music video and nearly a ...

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The Hardcore Collection (1999)

Heir to a long New York film and visual culture, which peaked in the 1960s, Richard Kern was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the 80s and 90s. Oscillating endlessly between photography and animated images, one of the pillars of Cinema of tra ...

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Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent (1994)

Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch. ...

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My Nightmare (1993)

Director Richard Kern and model Susan McNamara engage in a chaotic fast-cut blend of fantasy and reality. A satire of some of Kern's own early work. ...

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The Sewing Circle (1992)

Kembra Pfahler invites director Richard Kern to document her latest piece of provocative performance art. ...

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Goo (1991)

In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album. ...

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Nazi (1991)

Nazi is a short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection. ...

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Horoscope (1991)

Holly Adams plays an attractive but rather repressed young woman. She checks her horoscope, shambles homeward from her dull office job and promptly falls asleep in front of the TV. Two naked young men appear in her living room and begin dancing around for ...

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Tumble (1991)

Tumble demonstrates Richard Kern's departure from narrative filmmaking in the early nineties. He was clearly more interested now in photography, and specially in the merging of documentary and model photography. ...

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Catholic (1991)

Catholic is a b/w Super-8 short written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. A Catholic student has a crisis of faith. ...

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X Is Y (1990)

Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles. ...

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The Evil Cameraman (1990)

A man takes several women home for his own gratification, with mixed results. First part made in 1987, second part made in 1990 with a more comedic-lens. ...

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Pierce (1990)

Pierce is a documentary showing Richard Kern's girlfriend having her nipples pierced. ...

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Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove) (1990)

Sonic Youth performs in the music video "Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)" from the album "Goo" recorded for Geffen Records. An instrumental by Sonic Youth plays, as a photographer offers a model money in order to pose nude. Photographs are taken before the phot ...

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Submit to Me Now (1987)

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death. ...

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Submit to Me (1986)

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 mi ...

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King of Sex (1986)

In the first half of the movie Nick Zedd has a rough sexual playtime with two young women. In the second half, whilst dressed in drag, he attempts to fellate a too-drunk Rick Strange. All the while, Killdozer's 'King Of Sex' grinds away on the soundtrack. ...

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Death Valley '69 (1986)

Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment interlaced with live footage of the band. ...

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Thrust in Me (1985)

Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female. ...

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You Killed Me First (1985)

Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den. When confronted wit ...

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Stray Dogs (1985)

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart. ...

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Woman at the Wheel (1985)

A woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each argues with her and insists on taking the wheel. She beats one of them up, before crashing into a group of youths and, finally, a wall. ...

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I Hate You Now (1985)

"I Hate You Now" is about when you're in a relationship, and the person you're in a relationship with starts doing everything you do. So in the film the guy has a burned up face, and his girlfriend burns her face so she can be like him. ...

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Worm Movie (1985)

Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm. ...

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Manhattan Love Suicides (1985)

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now. ...

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The Right Side of My Brain (1984)

Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the cri ...

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Simonland (1984)

In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his studio audience and isolated viewers through a psychotic game of Simon Says with twisted results. ...

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Zombie Hunger (1984)

Zombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting. ...

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Goodbye 42nd Street (1983)

Shots of walking down 42nd Street showing storefronts including everything from Texas Fried Chicken to 25¢ porn arcades. ...

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American Obsessions (1983)

Richard Kern's 1983 film "American Obsessions" features David Wojnarowicz interacting with plaster heads from his "Metamorphosis" sculpture series. Kern went on to create two more films with David, "Stray Dogs" from his series Manhattan Love Suicides, 198 ...

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Movies Starring Richard Kern (25)

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019)

The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70's, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performance devo ...

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Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber (2015)

A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a comeback and make a new exploitation film after years of struggling to work. ...

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Shot by Kern (2013)

Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot hundreds of women in their homes and apartments, capturing them even during their most intimate moments, includi ...

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The Advocate for Fagdom (2011)

The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on location. And the other way round. Writers, film makers, art galeries o ...

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Blank City (2011)

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best ...

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NYC Foetus (2009)

A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring interviews with Thirlwell, Matt Johnson (The The), Alex Hacke (Neubauten), Michael Gira (Swans), Richard Ker ...

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Kill the Artist (2007)

Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior. ...

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Llik Your Idols (2007)

Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget. ...

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Arakimentari (2004)

A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture. ...

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Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation (2004)

Documentary about the late cult film-maker, Russ Meyer, with a penchant for strong, curvaceous women. ...

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D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist (2002)

This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr. ...

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Divine Trash (2000)

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. ...

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Bullet on a Wire (1998)

An unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after setting off the events that landed her there. ...

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Lunch on Kern (1997)

Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. ...

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Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York (1997)

Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc. Features associates such as Lydia Lunch, Beth B and more. ...

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Super 8½ (1994)

A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project. ...

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My Nightmare (1993)

Director Richard Kern and model Susan McNamara engage in a chaotic fast-cut blend of fantasy and reality. A satire of some of Kern's own early work. ...

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Red Spirit Lake (1993)

After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate. ...

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No Age New York (1993)

A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick Zedd and many others. A love letter to the New York Underground. ...

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IDn4 (1991)

I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real and is my longing about what? Then who are this people? ...

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American Nightmare (1991)

A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with candles, military helmets and clomping boots, dudes masturbating under crucifixes, and a bunch of crotches. ...

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We Are Not To Blame (1989)

The apparent strangeness of two sisters becomes easily understood as they wreak appropriate revenge on one of their abusive husbands, by tying him up and imprisoning him on their rooftop. They slowly descend into madness as Stark wraps her head in bandages ...

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Submit to Me Now (1987)

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death. ...

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Sublapse Video Mag 1 (1986)

Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie Pickett, Nick Zedd, Morbid Opera More R&R, Film, Prose. Pencil numbering indicates there was a run of 600 ta ...

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Submit to Me (1986)

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 mi ...

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