Richard Kern
American filmmaker · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1954 · age 71
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...
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never OverFilm2015
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebberFilm, Himself2013
Shot By KernSeries2007
Kill the ArtistFilm2004
ArakimentariFilm2002D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent ArtistFilm1999
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TVFilm, Director1994
Super 8½Film1993
My NightmareFilm, Director, Writer1992
The Sewing CircleFilm, Director, Writer1990
PierceFilm, Director1987
Submit to Me NowFilm, Director, Writer1986
King of SexFilm, Director, Writer1984
Zombie HungerFilm, Director, Writer1983
Goodbye 42nd StreetFilm, Director1954Born20 December 1954People around Richard
Nick Zedd Also in Manhattan Love Suicides and Thrust in Me- David Wojnarowicz Also in Manhattan Love Suicides and Stray Dogs
Marilyn Manson Also in Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV (1999)
Floria Sigismondi Also in Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV (1999)
Samuel Bayer Also in Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV (1999)
E. Elias Merhige Also in Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV (1999)
Matthew Rolston Also in Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV (1999)- William "Bill" Rice Also in Manhattan Love Suicides and Stray Dogs
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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.
