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Richard Kern
Director, Editor, Writer, Producer, Actor
Born December 20, 1954 (69 years)
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.
Filmography
| 2019 | Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over · as Self |
| 2015 | Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim Vanbebber · as Himself |
| 2013 | Shot by Kern (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | The Advocate for Fagdom · as Self |
| 2010 | Blank City · as Self |
| 2004 | Arakimentari · as Self |
| 2002 | D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist · as Himself - Interviewee |
| 1998 | SexTV (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | Divine Trash · as Self |
| 1991 | IDn4 · as Richard Kern |