Richard Kern
Birth: 1954 (Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina)
Official Website: RichardKern.com
Major Works: My Nightmare (1993)
The Bitches (1992)
Sewing Circle (1992)
Horoscope (1991)
Nazi (1991)
Tumble (1991)
The Evil Cameraman (1990)
Money Love (1990)
Pierce (1990)
X Is Y (1990)
Submit to Me Now (1987)
Death Valley 69 (1986)
Fingered (1986)
Goodbye 42nd Street (1986)
King of Sex (1986)
I Hate You Now (1985)
The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
Stray Dogs (1985)
Submit to Me (1985)
Thrust in Me (1985)
Woman at the Wheel (1985)
You Killed Me First (1985)
Notes: Was a member of the Cinema of Transgression movement in NYC in the early ’80s and collaborated on Thrust in Me with Nick Zedd.
Published several issues of the zine The Heroin Addict, which was later renamed The Valium Addict.
Has directed several music videos for Sonic Youth, King Missile and Marilyn Manson.
Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Wikipedia: Bio and info
Video: None
Today starts in Lausanne the retrospective of his excellent films, at the LUFF.
Actually, Kern’s two retrospectives are on Oct. 18 & 19, 2008. I’ll have the lineup on Bad Lit in a day or two.
Richard Kern also directed two years ago (in 2007) a feature film for his third album published by Taschen “Action”. The feature film is called “Extra Action” and it makes part of the print edition. In this film appear all the naked women of the same album. So, the above phrase “HAS GIVEN UP FILMMAKING…” is not so correct. I wanted to add this comment since the first days of this entry.
If you want, you can also read this small paragraph about the first Richard Kern screening in Greece that took place in Larissa (Central Greece)12 years ago (in March 1997) :
http://www.kaganof.com/kagablog/2008/03/15/kern-in-greece/
[...] Frank, John Cassavetes, William S. Burroughs and more; and a two-night program of the work of Richard Kern, who will be in attendance. Plus, there’s retrospectives of the work of Japanese filmmakers [...]