Overview
Richard Kern
Known For
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic...
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van...
NYC Foetus
A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos,...
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.