Movies: Richard Kern

  • 2000
    Divine Trash

    Divine Trash (2000)

    Divine Trash

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    The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters....

    Divine Trash
  • 2002
    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist (2002)

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

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    This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirwell (Foetus), Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron ...

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
  • 1994
    Super 8½

    Super 8½ (1994)

    Super 8½

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    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....

    Super 8½
  • 1986
    Submit to Me

    Submit to Me (1986)

    Submit to Me

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    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. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to...

    Submit to Me
  • 2004
    Arakimentari

    Arakimentari (2004)

    Arakimentari

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    A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture....

    Arakimentari
  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City (2011)

    Blank City

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    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 thei...

    Blank City
  • 1984
    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain (1984)

    The Right Side of My Brain

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    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. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but t...

    The Right Side of My Brain
  • 1985
    You Killed Me First

    You Killed Me First (1985)

    You Killed Me First

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    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. When confront...

    You Killed Me First
  • 1985
    Woman at the Wheel

    Woman at the Wheel (1985)

    Woman at the Wheel

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    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. She beats one of them up, before crashing into a group of youths and, finally, a wall....

    Woman at the Wheel
  • 1990
    Pierce

    Pierce (1990)

    Pierce

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    Pierce is a documentary showing Richard Kern's girlfriend having her nipples pierced....

    Pierce
  • 2011
    Face to Panty Ratio

    Face to Panty Ratio (2011)

    Face to Panty Ratio

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    Face to Panty Ratio is a 3 minute short film by New York based photographer and cult director Richard Kern featuring close ups of girls’ faces and panties....

    Face to Panty Ratio
  • 1992
    The Bitches

    The Bitches (1992)

    The Bitches

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    Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other....

    The Bitches
  • 1985
    Manhattan Love Suicides

    Manhattan Love Suicides (1985)

    Manhattan Love Suicides

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    A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now....

    Manhattan Love Suicides
  • 1987
    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now (1987)

    Submit to Me Now

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    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....

    Submit to Me Now
  • 1985
    I Hate You Now

    I Hate You Now (1985)

    I Hate You Now

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    “I Hate You Now” is about when you’re in a relationship, and the person you’re in a relationship with starts doing everything you do. So in the film the guy has a burned up face, and his girlfriend burns her face so she can be like him. — Richard Ker...

    I Hate You Now
  • 1985
    Thrust in Me

    Thrust in Me (1985)

    Thrust in Me

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    Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female....

    Thrust in Me
  • 1993
    My Nightmare

    My Nightmare (1993)

    My Nightmare

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    Director Richard Kern and model Susan McNamara engage in a chaotic fast-cut blend of fantasy and reality. A satire of some of Kern's own early work....

    My Nightmare
  • 2019
    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019)

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

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    The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70's, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performanc...

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
  • 1991
    Nazi

    Nazi (1991)

    Nazi

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    Nazi is a short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection....

    Nazi
  • 1986
    Fingered

    Fingered (1986)

    Fingered

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    One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to shock, insult, or irritate, you have been warned that we are catering only to our own preferences.” The film came...

    Fingered