Richard Kern Movies

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

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

Catholic is a b/w Super-8 short written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. A Catholic student has a crisis of faith.

The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts...

Documentary about the late cult film-maker, Russ Meyer, with a penchant for strong, curvaceous women.

A woman talks about why she scarifies herself and shows it.

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...

House Sitter is one of many new short films on the 2013 DVD Extra Shot by Kern.

Norwegian singer Annie and Norwegian visual artist Bjarne Melgaard’s “Russian Kiss” is their protest song and short film, directed...

I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real...

Holly Adams plays an attractive but rather repressed young woman. She checks her horoscope, shambles homeward from her dull office job and promptly...

A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a...

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to...

Zombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting.

Between 2010 and 2018, Kern interviewed women about the medications they used and the effects of those meds on their outlook.

Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm.

Tumble demonstrates Richard Kern’s departure from narrative filmmaking in the early nineties. He was clearly more interested now in...

Richard Kern 2019.

A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial...

The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's...