Richard Kern Movies

Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid

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

Heir to a long New York film and visual culture, which peaked in the 1960s, Richard Kern was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the 80s...

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

A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with...

Controversial photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern’s ode to podophilia, aka foot fetishism.

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

Lost sequel to Zombie Hunter by Richard Kern.

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

Sonic Youth performs in the music video "Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)" from the album "Goo" recorded for Geffen Records. An instrumental by Sonic Youth...

Between 2010 and 2018, Kern interviewed women about the medications they used and the effects of those meds on their outlook.

Part showcase for the fashion label Atelier E. B., part infomercial for a particular brand of menstrual cup, "The Girl who follows Marple" envelopes...

Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment...

Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot...

The apparent strangeness of two sisters becomes easily understood as they wreak appropriate revenge on one of their abusive husbands, by tying him up...

Richard Kern’s 1983 film "American Obsessions" features David Wojnarowicz interacting with plaster heads from his “Metamorphosis”...

A woman talks about why she scarifies herself and shows it.

House Sitter is one of many new short films on the 2013 DVD Extra Shot by Kern.

Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc....

Photographer Richard Kern asks his models to "roll around and do something interesting for a few minutes". Extra Action documents 60 of these...