![Richard Kern](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/vVln96KlpjnumAi1RdOmxJcoIQr.jpg)
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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 4.761 |
Birthday | 1954-12-20 |
Place of Birth | Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA |
Also Known As | R. Kern, 理查德·克恩, |
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2004
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2011
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5.333/3
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2007
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Llik Your Idols
4.6/5
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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1993
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Red Spirit Lake
5.7/3
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1993
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No Age New York
7/1
A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick Zedd...
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1989
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We Are Not To Blame
0/0
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IDn4
0/0
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1985
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Submit to Me
5.3/20
A No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide.
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1993
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My Nightmare
6.4/14
The filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery.
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![Submit to Me Now](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/5glUwurOAjZ2UEkWQS61Xck9M4J.jpg)
1987
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4.6/16
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2009
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NYC Foetus
0/0
A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring in...
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2015
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7/3
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1994
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5.7/11
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1991
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2.5/2
A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with candles...
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2011
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Blank City
6.9/11
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 circu...
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Divine Trash
7.3/33
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2002
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4.7/5
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2007
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2/1
Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion...
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2019
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7/5
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1998
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Bullet on a Wire
0/0
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![Lunch on Kern](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/94WzSFQN006gmOgNDuRJZcYhvTO.jpg)
1997
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0/0
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1997
![Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1dKHchDmd1QY13eiNPCjDHzhYL7.jpg)
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
0/0
Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc. Featur...
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![Shot by Kern](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/43ckZdPJFH4lrul97ib8t0GngAw.jpg)
2013
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Shot by Kern
0/0
Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot hundre...
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![The Hardcore Collection](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/66xU5GDOzzRuO97Oy35ZaHo38fi.jpg)
2012
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The Hardcore Collection
7.7/3
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...
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![Sublapse Video Mag 1](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6lLZfvfc84Fxk8sAasnsXkusQwE.jpg)
1986
![Sublapse Video Mag 1](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6lLZfvfc84Fxk8sAasnsXkusQwE.jpg)
Sublapse Video Mag 1
8/1
Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie Pick...
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