Richard Kern — Playwright (15)
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Nazi (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Nazi
director: 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) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
King of Sex
director: 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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Horoscope (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Horoscope
director: 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) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fingered
director: 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) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Tumble
director: 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) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Submit to Me Now
director: 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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Catholic (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Catholic
director: 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.
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The Bitches (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
The Bitches
director: 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) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Woman at the Wheel
director: 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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You Killed Me First (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
You Killed Me First
director: 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!"
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X Is Y (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
X Is Y
director: Richard Kern actor: 琳达·瑟芬 / 克里斯蒂娜·霍约斯
other title: X等于Y
Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
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I Hate You Now (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
I Hate You Now
director: Richard Kern actor: Tom Turner / Amy Turner
other title: 我恨你
“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 Kern