Movies: Richard Kern

Photographer Richard Kern asks his models to "roll around and do something interesting for a few minutes". Extra Action documents 60 of these innocent amateur incidents set to an original musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth....

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 comedic-lens....

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 and 90s. Oscillating endlessly between photography and animated images, one of the pillars of Cinema ...

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

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

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

“I Hate You Now” is about when you’re in a relationship, and the person you’re in a relationship with starts doing everything you do. So in the film the guy has a burned up face, and his girlfriend burns her face so she can be like him. — Richard Ker...

Compilation of Richard Kern movies...

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 interlaced with live footage of the band....

Kembra Pfahler invites director Richard Kern to document her latest piece of provocative performance art....

Zombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting....

Tumble demonstrates Richard Kern’s departure from narrative filmmaking in the early nineties. He was clearly more interested now in photography, and specially in the merging of documentary and model photography....

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

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

Lost sequel to Zombie Hunter by Richard Kern....

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

Short by Kern...

Richard Kern 2019....

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 and panties....

The alternate Richard Kern version....