Richard Kern Movies

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

Director Richard Kern and model Susan McNamara engage in a chaotic fast-cut blend of fantasy and reality. A satire of some of Kern's own early work.

Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm.

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

A fringe film collective of edge-dwelling New York nihilist punks and crazies whose main pathological protagonist triumvirate were voyeur smackhead...

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

An unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after setting off the events that landed her there.

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director...

The aftermath of an experience with Heroin causes a man to destroy anything within his path.

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

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

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

A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick...

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

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

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

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...

In the first half of the movie Nick Zedd has a rough sexual playtime with two young women. In the second half, whilst dressed in drag, he attempts to...

A man takes several women home for his own gratification, with mixed results. First part made in 1987, second part made in 1990 with a more...

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