Richard Kern
Author, Film director
1954 –
Who is Richard Kern?
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, Karen Finley and Henry Rollins in movies like The Right Side of My Brain and Fingered. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion and was one of the leading lights of the movement which Nick Zedd coined the Cinema of Transgression.
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- Born
- 1954
Roanoke Rapids - Also known as
- R. Kern
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Lived in
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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