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Richard Kern is an American underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to prominence as part of the cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films like The Right Side of My Brain and Fingered, which featured personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Kembra Pfahler, Karen Finley and Henry Rollins. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence and perversion and was involved in the Cinema of Transgression movement, a term coined by Nick Zedd.
Born
Friday, 01 January 1954
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over | Self | 2021 |
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim Vanbebber | Self / Himself | 2015 |
The Advocate for Fagdom | Himself / Self | 2011 |
Blank City | Himself | 2011 |
Llik Your Idols | Self / Himself | 2007 |
Kill the Artist | Himself / Self | 2007 |
Arakimentari | Himself / Self | 2004 |
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist | Himself - Interviewee / Self - Interviewee | 2002 |
SexTV | Self | 1998 |
Divine Trash | Himself / Self | 1998 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over | Self | 2021 |
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim Vanbebber | Self / Himself | 2015 |
The Advocate for Fagdom | Himself / Self | 2011 |
Blank City | Himself | 2011 |
Llik Your Idols | Self / Himself | 2007 |
Kill the Artist | Himself / Self | 2007 |
Arakimentari | Himself / Self | 2004 |
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist | Himself - Interviewee / Self - Interviewee | 2002 |
SexTV | Self | 1998 |
Divine Trash | Himself / Self | 1998 |
Bullet on a Wire | Jake | 1998 |
Red Spirit Lake | 1993 | |
The Evil Cameraman | The Cameraman | 1990 |
We Are Not to Blame | 1989 | |
Submit to Me Now | 1987 | |
Submit to Me | (as R. Kern) | 1985 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Face to Panty Ratio | 2011 |
Corporate Ghost | 2004 |
God Is in the T.V. | 1999 |
The Bitches | 1992 |
Sewing Circle | 1992 |
Catholic | 1991 |
Tumble | 1991 |
Nazi | 1991 |
Horoscope | 1991 |
X Is Y | 1990 |
The Evil Cameraman | 1990 |
Pierce | 1990 |
Submit to Me Now | 1987 |
Fingered | 1986 |
King of Sex | 1986 |
Sonic Youth Feat. Lydia Lunch: Death Valley 69 | 1986 |
Thrust in Me | 1985 |
The Right Side of My Brain | 1985 |
Stray Dogs | 1985 |
You Killed Me First | 1985 |
I Hate You Now | 1985 |
Submit to Me | 1985 |
Woman at the Wheel | 1985 |
Simonland | 1984 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Corporate Ghost | 2004 |
The Bitches | 1992 |
Sewing Circle | 1992 |
Catholic | 1991 |
Tumble | 1991 |
Horoscope | 1991 |
X Is Y | 1990 |
The Evil Cameraman | 1990 |
Pierce | 1990 |
Submit to Me Now | 1987 |
Fingered | 1986 |
King of Sex | 1986 |
The Right Side of My Brain | 1985 |
You Killed Me First | 1985 |
Submit to Me | 1985 |