Movies: Richard Kern

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

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....

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart....

A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with candles, military helmets and clomping boots, dudes masturbating under crucifixes, and a bunch of crotches....

Part showcase for the fashion label Atelier E. B., part infomercial for a particular brand of menstrual cup, "The Girl who follows Marple" envelopes it's commercial underpinnings in the familiarity of a made-for-TV thriller and the complicit voyeuris...

Holly Adams plays an attractive but rather repressed young woman. She checks her horoscope, shambles homeward from her dull office job and promptly falls asleep in front of the TV. Two naked young men appear in her living room and begin dancing aroun...

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

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

Richard Kern’s 1983 film "American Obsessions" features David Wojnarowicz interacting with plaster heads from his “Metamorphosis” sculpture series. Kern went on to create two more films with David, "Stray Dogs" from his series Manhattan Love Suicide...

Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch....

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 beats one of them up, before crashing into a group of youths and, finally, a wall....

The alternate Richard Kern version....

“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...

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

Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot hundreds of women in their homes and apartments, capturing them even during their most intimate moments, i...

Short by Kern...

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

Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc. Features associates such as Lydia Lunch, Beth B and more....

Compilation of Richard Kern movies...

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