Richard Kern Movies

A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.

A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a...

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

I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real...

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

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

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

Catholic is a b/w Super-8 short written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. A Catholic student has a crisis of faith.

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to...

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

House Sitter is one of many new short films on the 2013 DVD Extra Shot by Kern.

Documentary about the late cult film-maker, Russ Meyer, with a penchant for strong, curvaceous women.

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

Norwegian singer Annie and Norwegian visual artist Bjarne Melgaard’s “Russian Kiss” is their protest song and short film, directed...

Holly Adams plays an attractive but rather repressed young woman. She checks her horoscope, shambles homeward from her dull office job and promptly...

Richard Kern 2019.

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

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

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

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