Richard Kern
Born December 20, 1954 (Age: 71)
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Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
Blank City
2011
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as Self
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Age: 56
NYC Foetus
2009
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as Himself
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Age: 54
No Image
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
2002
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as Himself - Interviewee
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Age: 47
Divine Trash
2000
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as Self
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Age: 45
Bullet on a Wire
1998
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Age: 43
Lunch on Kern
1997
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as Himself
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Age: 42
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997
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Age: 42
My Nightmare
1993
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Age: 38
No Image
No Age New York
1993
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as Himself
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Age: 38
Red Spirit Lake
1993
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as Sardonia's Worker
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Age: 38
IDn4
1991
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as Richard Kern
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Age: 36
American Nightmare
1991
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as
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Age: 36
No Image
We Are Not To Blame
1989
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Age: 34
Submit to Me Now
1987
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as
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Age: 32