Richard Kern Movies

The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's...

The sexual misadventures of a sexually insane girl.

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

One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners,...

Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other.

This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose...

Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm.

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to...

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

Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern.

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

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

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.