Richard Kern
b. 1954 (age 72)
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
Director
Writer
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 in movies like "The Right Side of My Brain" and "Fingered." Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion and was one of the leading lights of the movement which Nick Zedd coined the Cinema of Transgression.
Known For
Filmography
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Stranger's Arms
2022 Actor
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★ 7.6
Wojnarowicz
2020 Self
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★ 6.8
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019 Self
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★ 8.5
Diary of a Deadbeat
2015 Self
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The Girl Who Followed Marple
2014 Director
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Gun Shooting
2012 Actor
Director
Writer
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Destruction
2012 Actor
Director
Writer
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★ 5.1
Face to Panty Ratio
2011 Director
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Clean
2011 Director
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★ 7.3
NYC Foetus
2009 Self
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★ 7.1
Arakimentari
2004 Self
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★ 7.0
Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
2004 Self
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★ 6.3
Bullet on a Wire
1997 Actor
Jake
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★ 5.5
Red Spirit Lake
1993 Actor
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No Age, New York
1993 Self
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★ 5.6
The Bitches
1992 Director
Writer
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★ 5.3
Sewing Circle
1992 Director
Writer
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★ 5.3
Horoscope
1991 Director
Writer
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★ 5.1
Nazi
1991 Director
Writer
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★ 5.1
Catholic
1991 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 4.9
Tumble
1991 Director
Writer
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★ 3.8
American Nightmare
1991 Actor
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IDn4
1991 Actor
Richard Kern
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★ 5.4
X Is Y
1990 Director
Writer
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★ 4.9
The Evil Cameraman
1990 Actor
Director
Writer
The Cameraman
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★ 4.4
Pierce
1990 Director
Writer
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★ 6.3
We Are Not to Blame
1989 Actor
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★ 5.4
Submit to Me Now
1987 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 6.0
Fingered
1986 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 5.6
King of Sex
1986 Director
Writer
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★ 6.7
Goodbye 42nd Street
1986 Director
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★ 5.7
You Killed Me First
1985 Director
Writer
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★ 6.1
The Right Side of My Brain
1985 Director
Writer
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★ 5.9
Submit to Me
1985 Actor
Director
Writer
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★ 5.9
Thrust in Me
1985 Director
Writer
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★ 5.9
Stray Dogs
1985 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 6.2
Manhattan Love Suicides
1985 Director
Writer
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★ 5.8
I Hate You Now
1985 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 5.7
Woman at the Wheel
1985 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 6.2
Worm Movie
1985 Cinematographer
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★ 6.3
Zombie Hunger
1984 Director
Writer
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★ 5.3
Simonland
1984 Director
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★ 5.3
Zombie Hunger 2
1984 Director
Writer
Cinematographer