Richard Kern Movies

  • 1992
    The Bitches

    The Bitches

    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
  • 2004
    Arakimentari

    Arakimentari

    Arakimentari

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

    Arakimentari
  • 2007
    Llik Your Idols

    Llik Your Idols

    Llik Your Idols

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    Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.

    Llik Your Idols
  • 2011
    The Advocate for Fagdom

    The Advocate for Fagdom

    The Advocate for Fagdom

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    The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts...

    The Advocate for Fagdom
  • 2000
    Divine Trash

    Divine Trash

    Divine Trash

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

    Divine Trash
  • 1986
    Fingered

    Fingered

    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...

    Fingered
  • 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

    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...

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
  • 1986
    King of Sex

    King of Sex

    King of Sex

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    Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern.

    King of Sex
  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City

    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...

    Blank City
  • 1991
    IDn4

    IDn4

    IDn4

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    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...

    IDn4
  • 1984
    Simonland

    Simonland

    Simonland

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    In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his studio audience and isolated viewers through a psychotic...

    Simonland
  • 1991
    Nazi

    Nazi

    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
  • 1993
    Red Spirit Lake

    Red Spirit Lake

    Red Spirit Lake

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    After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece...

    Red Spirit Lake
  • 2011
    Face to Panty Ratio

    Face to Panty Ratio

    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...

    Face to Panty Ratio
  • 1987
    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now

    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...

    Submit to Me Now
  • 2015
    Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

    Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

    Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

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    A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a...

    Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
  • 1990
    X Is Y

    X Is Y

    X Is Y

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    Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.

    X Is Y
  • 1984
    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

    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,...

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

    You Killed Me First

    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,...

    You Killed Me First
  • 2019
    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    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...

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over