Self
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 performance devoted to the utter right of any woman to indulge, seek pleasure, and to say "fuck you!" as loud as any man. In this time of endless attacks on women this is a rallying cry to acknowledge the only thing that is going to bring us together - ART...as the universal salve to all of our traumas.
Cinematography
Controversial photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern’s ode to podophilia, aka foot fetishism,
Editor
Controversial photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern’s ode to podophilia, aka foot fetishism,
Producer
Controversial photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern’s ode to podophilia, aka foot fetishism,
Director
Controversial photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern’s ode to podophilia, aka foot fetishism,
Himself
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.
Director
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.
Director
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley69 , The Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me First, The Bitches, The Sewing Circle, X is Y, Fingered, Horoscope, Submit to Me Now, My Nightmare, Manhattan Loves Suicides, Submit to Me, and Evil Cameraman. Music from Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, J.G. Thirwell, Butthole Surfers.
Director
Clean is an experimental short film by NY filmmaker Richard Kern.
Himself
The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on location. And the other way round. Writers, film makers, art galeries owners, actors and actresses, photographers, producers, friends and loved ones all join in a game of interpretation, analysis or simple anecdotes. John Waters, Bruce Benderson, Harmony Korine, Gus Van Sant, Richard Kern, Rick Castro and others deliver their impressions, theories and confessions. Everything blends into the fascinating portrait of a singular person blessed with singular talents. A complex personality at war not with a system but all systems. The portrait of a man constantly moving between his punk attitude and extreme sensibility.
Director
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.
Himself
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. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Himself
A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring interviews with Thirlwell, Matt Johnson (The The), Alex Hacke (Neubauten), Michael Gira (Swans), Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch and more.
Director
Himself
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
Himself
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.
Director
A collection of Marilyn Manson's music videos.
Self
A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.
Director
A woman talks about why she scarifies herself and shows it.
Himself - Interviewee
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 Ashet
Director
A compilation of all of the band's music videos up until 1999. Also featured is exclusive footage cut from "The Dope Show" video and an hour of live and backstage footage from the Rock is Dead tour.
Himself
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
An unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after setting off the events that landed her there.
Camera Operator
Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch.
Himself
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.
Writer
The filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery.
The filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery.
Director
The filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery.
Himself
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. A love letter to the New York Underground.
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.
Writer
A woman's vagina is sewn shut.
Writer
Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other.
Director
Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other.
Camera Operator
Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other.
Director
A woman's vagina is sewn shut.
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. Is my loneliness real and is my longing about what? Then who are this people?
Editor
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.
Producer
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.
Director
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.
Writer
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. Two naked young men appear in her living room and begin dancing around for her pleasure.
Writer
Catholic is a b/w Super-8 short written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. A Catholic student has a crisis of faith.
Writer
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.
Writer
Nazi is a short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection.
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.
Director
Catholic is a b/w Super-8 short written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. A Catholic student has a crisis of faith.
Director
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.
Director
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. Two naked young men appear in her living room and begin dancing around for her pleasure.
Director
Nazi is a short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection.
Writer
Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
Director
Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
Writer
A man takes several women home for his own gratification, with mixed results.
Director
A man takes several women home for his own gratification, with mixed results.
Director
Pierce is a documentary showing Richard Kern's girlfriend having her nipples pierced.
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. They slowly descend into madness as Stark wraps her head in bandages and paints her face white while clutching a baby doll.
Editor
Sadomasochistic images of self-mutilation.
Director of Photography
Sadomasochistic images of self-mutilation.
Producer
Sadomasochistic images of self-mutilation.
Screenplay
Sadomasochistic images of self-mutilation.
Sadomasochistic images of self-mutilation.
Director
Sadomasochistic images of self-mutilation.
Director of Photography
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 as members of the sexual minority.”
Writer
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 as members of the sexual minority.”
Director
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 as members of the sexual minority.”
Editor
Music video of Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch spliced with scenes featuring Lung Leg.
Director
Music video of Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch spliced with scenes featuring Lung Leg.
Writer
Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern.
Director
Shots of walking down 42nd Street showing storefronts including everything from Texas Fried Chicken to 25cent porn arcades.
Director
Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern.
Writer
Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female.
Director
Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female.
Producer
The sexual misadventures of a sexually insane girl.
Writer
The sexual misadventures of a sexually insane girl.
Director
The sexual misadventures of a sexually insane girl.
Cinematography
Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm.
Writer
A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.
Writer
About a deformed guy and his girlfriend.
Writer
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.
Writer
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 confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"
Screenplay
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.
Producer
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.
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.
Director
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
Writer
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
Director
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.
Director
About a deformed guy and his girlfriend.
Director
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.
Director
A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.
Director
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 confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"
Cinematography
Lost sequel to Zombie Hunter by Richard Kern.
Producer
Lost sequel to Zombie Hunter by Richard Kern.
Writer
Lost sequel to Zombie Hunter by Richard Kern.
Director
Lost sequel to Zombie Hunter by Richard Kern.
Producer
Zombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting.
Writer
Zombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting.
Director
Zombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting.
Director
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.
