Actor

Richard Kern

Directing

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Movies: 66Series: 1Crew credits: 48

TMDB ID: 1119100

IMDb ID: nm0449492

Known for: Directing

Born: December 20, 1954

Age: 71

Place of birth: Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1983 - 2019

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 5.41

Wikidata: Q1929208

Also known as

R. Kern • 理查德·克恩

Other jobs

Director (43)Writer (2)Cinematography (1)Editor (1)Producer (1)

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Biography

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.