Movies: Richard Kern

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....

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 ...

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...

Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid...

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....

Nazi is a short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection....

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....

Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles....

Sonic Youth performs in the music video "Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)" from the album "Goo" recorded for Geffen Records. An instrumental by Sonic Youth plays, as a photographer offers a model money in order to pose nude. Photographs are taken before th...

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

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....

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...

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

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

Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior....

“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...

The world-famous erotic photographer Richard Kern manages like no other to capture exciting girls in their most intimate moments. Graceful, submissive, casual, provocative and desirable - this film shows the most enchanting amateur models that the Ne...

The alternate Richard Kern version....

Compilation of Richard Kern movies...

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....