Richard Kern Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Richard Kern Trailers
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01 January 2002
This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jt
27 August 2015
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.
01 January 1993
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.
27 September 2004
A collection of Marilyn Manson's music videos.
01 January 1983
Richard Kern’s 1983 film "American Obsessions" features David Wojnarowicz interacting with plaster heads from his “Metamorphosis” sculpture series.
01 January 1984
In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his studio audience and isolated viewers through a psychotic game of Simon Says with twisted results.
01 January 1989
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.
01 January 1992
Kembra Pfahler invites director Richard Kern to document her latest piece of provocative performance art.
30 July 2007
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
15 August 2019
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry.
01 January 2011
Clean is an experimental short film by NY filmmaker Richard Kern.
01 September 2007
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.
01 January 1998
An unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after setting off the events that landed her there.
13 November 1991
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.
01 January 1991
Holly Adams plays an attractive but rather repressed young woman. She checks her horoscope, shambles homeward from her dull office job and promptly falls asleep in front of the TV.
11 June 1991
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album.
12 September 1990
Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
01 January 1984
Zombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting.
01 September 2015
Controversial photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern’s ode to podophilia, aka foot fetishism.
06 April 2011
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.
31 March 2000
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
01 January 1985
Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm.
01 January 1986
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.
05 September 1994
Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch.
01 January 1999
Heir to a long New York film and visual culture, which peaked in the 1960s, Richard Kern was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the 80s and 90s.
27 August 2013
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.
01 January 2014
Part showcase for the fashion label Atelier E. B., part infomercial for a particular brand of menstrual cup, "The Girl who follows Marple" envelopes it's commercial underpinnings in the familiarity of a made-for-TV thriller and the complicit voyeurism that a collaboration with Kern entails.
01 January 2013
House Sitter is one of many new short films on the 2013 DVD Extra Shot by Kern.
01 January 1997
Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc.
01 January 2003
A woman talks about why she scarifies herself and shows it.
01 January 1984
Lost sequel to Zombie Hunter by Richard Kern.
01 January 1997
Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] madd
11 June 1994
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.
01 January 1984
The aftermath of an experience with Heroin causes a man to destroy anything within his path.
03 September 1993
Director Richard Kern and model Susan McNamara engage in a chaotic fast-cut blend of fantasy and reality.
04 November 2011
The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images.
01 January 2013
Between 2010 and 2018, Kern interviewed women about the medications they used and the effects of those meds on their outlook.
18 January 2004
A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.
01 January 1985
A woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each argues with her and insists on taking the wheel.
01 January 1987
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.
01 January 2004
Documentary about the late cult film-maker, Russ Meyer, with a penchant for strong, curvaceous women.
09 November 1999
God Is in the T.V. is the second video album by Marilyn Manson. It features all 13 music videos Marilyn Manson spawned between July 1994 and November 1999, as well as uncensored bonus footage from the production of "The Dope Show" music video and nearly an hour of live and backstage footage from the Rock Is Dead tour.
09 April 1984
Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch.
01 January 1991
Catholic is a b/w Super-8 short written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. A Catholic student has a crisis of faith.
01 January 1990
Pierce is a documentary showing Richard Kern's girlfriend having her nipples pierced.
11 September 1985
Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female.
17 January 2014
The world-famous erotic photographer Richard Kern manages like no other to capture exciting girls in their most intimate moments.
01 January 1985
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
01 January 1986
In the first half of the movie Nick Zedd has a rough sexual playtime with two young women. In the second half, whilst dressed in drag, he attempts to fellate a too-drunk Rick Strange.
01 January 1985
Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den.
01 January 1993
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.
01 January 2004
Compilation of Richard Kern movies
01 January 1991
Nazi is a short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee.
01 January 1991
Tumble demonstrates Richard Kern’s departure from narrative filmmaking in the early nineties. He was clearly more interested now in photography, and specially in the merging of documentary and model photography.
01 January 1983
Shots of walking down 42nd Street showing storefronts including everything from Texas Fried Chicken to 25¢ porn arcades.
16 April 2019
Richard Kern 2019.
15 May 2009
A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia.
23 January 1986
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
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01 January 1991
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.
01 January 1990
Sonic Youth performs in the music video "Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)" from the album "Goo" recorded for Geffen Records.
