Richard Kern Movies

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

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

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

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

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

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

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

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

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...

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

The alternate Richard Kern version.

Tumble demonstrates Richard Kern’s departure from narrative filmmaking in the early nineties. He was clearly more interested now in...

Richard Kern 2019.

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

The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts...

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

Director Richard Kern and model Susan McNamara engage in a chaotic fast-cut blend of fantasy and reality. A satire of some of Kern's own early work.

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

Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch.

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