Movies: Richard Kern

The sexual misadventures of a sexually insane girl....

Pierce is a documentary showing Richard Kern's girlfriend having her nipples pierced....

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 as members of t...

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of thei...

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

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 confront...

A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring interviews with Thirlwell, Matt Johnson (The The), Alex Hacke (Neubauten), Michael Gira (Swans), Richa...

A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a comeback and make a new exploitation film after years of struggling to work....

The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on location. And the other way round. Writers, film makers, art gale...

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

This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirwell (Foetus), Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron ...

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart....

A No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide....

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

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

The filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery....

An unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after setting off the events that landed her there....

The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70's, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performanc...

A man takes several women home for his own gratification, with mixed results....

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