Richard Kern

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1954-12-20 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA

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.

Production

2008

Extra Action

as Director

1985

Thrust in Me

as Director

1993

My Nightmare

as Director

1990

1990

X Is Y

as Director

1990

Pierce

as Director

1986

Fingered

as Director

1985

1985

Stray Dogs

as Director

1987

Submit to Me Now

as Director

1985

1985

I Hate You Now

as Director

1986

Submit to Me

as Director

1991

Nazi

as Director

1992

1991

Horoscope

as Director

2011

1984

Simonland

as Director

1986

King of Sex

as Director

1983

1992

The Bitches

as Camera Operator

1992

The Bitches

as Director

1992

The Bitches

as Writer

1986

Death Valley '69

as Director

1994

1991

Goo

as Director

1991

Goo

as Producer

1991

Goo

as Editor

1986

Fingered

as Writer

1986

Fingered

as Director of Photography

2013

1991

Tumble

as Director

1991

Catholic

as Director

2013

House Sitter

as Director

2013

Shot by Kern

as Director

1983

2007

Extra Action

as Director

2013

Medicated

as Director

2013

Medicated

as Editor

1986

Submit to Me

as Producer

1987

Submit to Me Now

as Screenplay

1987

Submit to Me Now

as Producer

1987

Submit to Me Now

as Director of Photography

1987

1986

Submit to Me

as Screenplay

1985

Worm Movie

as Cinematography

1984

Zombie Hunger

as Director

1984

Zombie Hunger

as Writer

1984

Zombie Hunger

as Producer

1984

Zombie Hunger 2

as Director

1984

1984

Zombie Hunger 2

as Producer

1984

Zombie Hunger 2

as Cinematography

2015

F.F.P.

as Director

2015

F.F.P.

as Producer

2015

F.F.P.

as Editor

2015

F.F.P.

as Cinematography

2007

Extra Action

as Producer

2007

Extra Action

as Writer

1986

King of Sex

as Writer

1985

1985

Thrust in Me

as Writer

1985

1985

1985

Stray Dogs

as Writer

1990

X Is Y

as Writer

1990

1991

Nazi

as Writer

1991

Tumble

as Writer

1991

Catholic

as Writer

1991

Horoscope

as Writer

1992

1993

My Nightmare

as Writer

2011

Clean

as Director

2003

Cutter

as Director

1985

1984

Destruction

as Director

1984

Destruction

as Writer

1984

Destruction

as Editor

1993

Divine Hammer

as Director

2019

Bathtub

as Director

2014

Russian Kiss

as Director

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