Movies: Richard Kern

Shots of walking down 42nd Street showing storefronts including everything from Texas Fried Chicken to 25¢ porn arcades....

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....

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 ba...

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...

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart....

Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc. Features associates such as Lydia Lunch, Beth B and more....

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

“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...

Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern....

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

Clean is an experimental short film by NY filmmaker Richard Kern....

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....

Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch....

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

Kembra Pfahler invites director Richard Kern to document her latest piece of provocative performance art....

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

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 voyeuris...

Zombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting....

Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm....

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....