Richard Kern

Richard Kernis a New Yorkundergroundfilmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in theEast Villageof New York City in the 1980s, witheroticandexperimentalfilms featuring underground personalities of the time such asLydia Lunch,David Wojnarowicz,Sonic Youth,Kembra Pfahler, andHenry Rollins. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion. He was one of the leading lights of the Cinema of Transgression movement.