Richard Kern — Director (24)
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Nazi (1991)
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Richard Kern actor: Annabel Lee
Nazi is a short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection.
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King of Sex (1986)
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Richard Kern actor: Nick Zedd / Erica Caim …
In the first half of the movie Nick Zedd has a rough sexual playtime with two young women. In the second half, whilst dressed in drag, he attempts to fellate a too-drunk Rick Strange. All the while, Killdozer's 'King Of Sex' grinds away on the soundtrack.
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Face to Panty Ratio (2011)
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Face to Panty Ratio is a 3 minute short film by New York based photographer and cult director Richard Kern featuring close ups of girls’ faces and panties.
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Horoscope (1991)
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Richard Kern actor: Holly Adams / Bob Mook …
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 around for her pleasure.
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Fingered (1986)
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Richard Kern actor: Lydia Lunch / Lung Leg …
One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to shock, insult, or irritate, you have been warned that we are catering only to our own preferences.” The film came about following the criticism of Kern and Lydia Lunch's first collaborative venture: The Right Side of My Brain (1984).
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Scooter & Jinx - Tumble - Catholic - Nazi (1991)
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Richard Kern actor: Linda Serbu
other title: Tumble
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.
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Submit to Me Now (1987)
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Richard Kern actor: Lung Leg / Amy Turner …
other title: 现在服从我
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.
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The Right Side of My Brain (1984)
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Richard Kern actor: Lydia Lunch / 亨利·罗林斯 …
other title: 我的右脑
Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).
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The Bitches (1992)
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Richard Kern actor: 琳达·瑟芬 / Annabelle Davies …
other title: 婊子们
Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other.
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Woman at the Wheel (1985)
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Richard Kern actor: Adrienne Altenhaus / Nick Zedd
other title: 车轮下的女人
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.
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流浪狗 (1985)
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Richard Kern actor: 威廉·赖斯 / David Wojnarowicz
other title: Stray Dogs
A very strange little short by New York based Nick Zedd. This one follows a man who is in love with his favorite local artist.He follows him home and makes numerous unwanted sexual advances on the middle aged male painter, who ignores him throughout. Sexually frustrated he begin's to tear himself apart (literally) and not until he is a bloody dying mess on the floor does the artist take any notice, in the way of a sarcastic laugh. Very very odd.
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You Killed Me First (1985)
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Richard Kern actor: Lung Leg / David Wojnarowicz
other title: 你先杀了我
Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den. When confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"