Richard Kern

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

‘Horoscope’ is one of the short movies made by underground filmmaker Richard Kern. All of Kern’s movies are unusual: intentionally transgressive, and often violent. But ‘Horoscope’ is unusual by Kern’s standards because it’s LESS unusual than usual, for him. There’s very little transgression, and the mood is (by Kern’s standards) sweet-natured. Typically, Kern’s eroticises the female body: on the rare occasions when his films feature erotic male images (as in ‘Submit to Me’), those images are usually briefer and less intense than female-centred images in the same film. ‘Horoscope’, unusually (perhaps uniquely) for Kern, features more male than female nudity.Read More »

A Catholic student has a serious crisis of faith.Read More »

Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment scantily clad and being generally unpleasant to each other. A guy comes in, and they start to engage.Read More »

Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won’t forget.Read More »

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Tumble demonstrates Richard Kern’s departure from narrative filmmaking in the early nineties. He was clearly more interested now in photography, and specially in the merging of documentary and model photography.Read More »

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

‘Manhattan Love Suicides’ is made up of four, separate but roughly thematically connected, segments.

‘Stray Dogs’ concerns an artist (William Rice) being followed through the Manhattan streets by an obsessive young man (David Wojnarowicz) who tries to gain his attention. He follows the artist back to his apartment and begins literally tearing himself apart in frustration – at which point the artist laughs at him, and begins to sketch his dying body.

‘Woman at the Wheel’ follows a woman who takes her boyfriends (one at a time) for a drive; but they only spark arguments and insist on taking the wheel.Read More »