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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 20, 1954
Deathday: N/A
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Lunch on Kern
1997-01-01
Lunch on Kern
Overview: Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Arakimentari
2004-01-18
Arakimentari
Overview: A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-18
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The Advocate for Fagdom
2011-11-04
The Advocate for Fagdom
Overview: 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 owners, actors and actresses, photographers, producers, friends and loved ones all join in a game of interpretation, analysis or simple anecdotes. John Waters, Bruce Benderson, Harmony Korine, Gus Van Sant, Richard Kern, Rick Castro and others deliver their impressions, theories and confessions. Everything blends into the fascinating portrait of a singular person blessed with singular talents. A complex personality at war not with a system but all systems. The portrait of a man constantly moving between his punk attitude and extreme sensibility.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Llik Your Idols
2007-07-30
Llik Your Idols
Overview: Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-30
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Red Spirit Lake
1993-01-01
Red Spirit Lake
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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We Are Not To Blame
1989-01-01
We Are Not To Blame
Overview: 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 and paints her face white while clutching a baby doll.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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IDn4
1991-11-13
IDn4
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-13
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No Age New York
1993-01-01
No Age New York
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Bullet on a Wire
1998-01-01
Bullet on a Wire
Overview: An unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after setting off the events that landed her there.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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My Nightmare
1993-09-03
My Nightmare
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-03
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Submit to Me
1986-01-01
Submit to Me
Overview: 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 minutes and given an accompanying score.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997-01-01
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Shot by Kern
2013-08-27
Shot by Kern
Overview: 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, including everything from brushing their teeth topless to lying naked in bed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-27
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Submit to Me Now
1987-01-01
Submit to Me Now
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Hardcore Collection
2012-02-21
The Hardcore Collection
Overview: 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 69 , The Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me First, The Bitches, The Sewing Circle, X is Y, Fingered, Horoscope, Submit to Me Now, My Nightmare, Manhattan Loves Suicides, Submit to Me, and Evil Cameraman. Music from Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, J.G. Thirwell, Butthole Surfers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-21
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Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986-01-23
Sublapse Video Mag 1
Overview: 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 tapes.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-23
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NYC Foetus
2009-05-15
NYC Foetus
Overview: 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 Kern, Lydia Lunch and more.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-15
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Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015-08-27
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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Super 8½
1994-09-08
Super 8½
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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American Nightmare
1991-01-01
American Nightmare
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Blank City
2011-04-06
Blank City
Overview: 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 works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-06
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Divine Trash
2000-03-31
Divine Trash
Overview: The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
2002-01-01
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Overview: This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirwell (Foetus), Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron Ashet
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Kill the Artist
2007-01-01
Kill the Artist
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019-08-15
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Overview: 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 devoted to the utter right of any woman to indulge, seek pleasure, and to say "fuck you!" as loud as any man. In this time of endless attacks on women this is a rallying cry to acknowledge the only thing that is going to bring us together - ART...as the universal salve to all of our traumas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-15
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