Richard Kern
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Alt porn...and Stephen Sayadian are seen by some as predecessors of alt porn. The Cinema of Transgression of Richard Kern and Nick Zedd (as well as Kern's later photographic work) can also be viewed as early examples of alt porn. SuicideGirls model... In this article: SuicideGirls, Richard Kern, GodsGirls, Blue magazine, Vivid Entertainment, Joanna Angel, and Dave Naz |
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Wikipedia | October 16, 2009
Richard Kern
For the police officer, see NYPD subway sodomy scandal Richard Kern (born 1954 in North Carolina) is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural...
In this article: Sonic Youth, New York City, Hustler, David Wojnarowicz, East Village, North Carolina, DVD, Detachable Penis, and Death Valley 69
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Village Voice | September 07, 2009
'Naked!' at Paul Kasmin; Jessica Dickinson's 'Here'; 'Looking at Music: Side 2' at MOMA
...for viewing elsewhere-remain startlingly fresh. Sonic Youth's first video, "Death Valley '69," directed by Judith Barry and Richard Kern, is a cool send-up of campy horror films; Glenn O'Brien's TV talk show TV Party is just hilarious.
In this article: Identity crisis, MOMA, New Wave, Banana, Death Valley '69, Rammellzee, Polymer, and Fab 5 Freddy
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Lung Leg
The pin-up girl and star of the transgressive movement, she disappeared as quickly as she rose to fame. She appeared in several Richard Kern movies, including the starring role in one of his longest features You Killed Me First, as well as...
In this article: Sonic Youth, Minneapolis, New York City, Death Valley '69, Lungleg, Film Threat, Cop Shoot Cop, Blixa Bargeld, and Einsturzende Neubauten
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Wired: Beyond the Beyond | July 11, 2009
Re/Search Newsletter #83
...cacophonic) whole. The film on the DVD is another gem. This documentary about JGT features interviewees like Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, Blixa Bargeld, Matt Johnson and others. This set might seem a bit expensive with 25 bucks, but if you're...
In this article: Re/search, V. Vale, DVD, San Francisco, and UCSD
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Gawker | May 26, 2009
Youth Still Totally Against Fascism: Sonic Youth's Most Adorable Record Release Party [Team Party Crash]
...assured, as mom (in stripes, cutie glasses) looks on. Her band went on about a half hour later. Richard Kern and Michael Lavine. Kern was all shy about going off to shoot very willing naked ladies in seven cities. It's for a European...
In this article: Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, Michael Lavine, Kim Gordon, Fascism, and Leanne Marshall
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Cinema of Transgression
...humor in their work. Key players in this movement were Nick Zedd, Kembra Pfahler, Casandra Stark, Beth B, Tommy Turner, Richard Kern and Lydia Lunch, who in the late 1970s and mid 1980s began to make very low budget films using cheap 8 mm...
In this article: Nick Zedd, New York City, United States, Lydia Lunch, Kenneth Anger, Casandra Stark, No Wave, Jorg Buttgereit, and Jack Smith
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Transgressive art
...Zhichao for extreme body art, and Peng Yu for killing animals. Perhaps the most famous transgressive artist of early 1980s, Richard Kern began making films in New York with infamous underground actors Nick Zedd and Lung Leg. Some of them...
In this article: Nick Zedd, Andy Warhol, New York, Fluxus, Kenneth Anger, and Weasel Walter
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Blaster Al Ackerman
His influence in the 80s was strongly felt by neoism founder Istvan Kantor, performance artist Andre Stitt, photographer Richard Kern (who published Ackerman's writing in his magazine Dumb Fucker) and musicians Genesis P-Orridge who used...
In this article: Blaster Al Ackerman, John M. Bennett, Fredric Brown, Trademark, Dog, Catherine Pancake, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Francis Ponge
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Rolling Stone | January 18, 2008
Janet Encourages Jackson 5 Reunion, Tragedy Hits Lily Allen, Thurston Moore Scores Porn and More : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
...Thurston Moore has scored an adult film called Extra Action (And Extra Hardcore), due on DVD March 18th. The movie is directed by Richard Kern, who has also been behind the camera for several Sonic Youth videos. to heck with the...
In this article: Thurston Moore, Janet Jackson, Lily Allen, Jackson 5, T-Pain, Sonic Youth, Adult Swim, DVD, and Rock Band
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www.washingtonpost.com | October 24, 2007
Nightlife Agenda
...Josh Rushing have all participated in Q&A sessions with bargoers at Bourbon's monthly salon. This time around, the guest is Richard Kern, the famed New York filmmaker and photographer whose Web site is decidedly NSFW. Kern moved from his...
In this article: Jens Lekman, Van Hunt, Black Cat, Sly Stone, Halloween, Philadelphia, Mississippi, and Rat Pack
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Richard Kern (born 1954 in North Carolina) is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic films featuring underground rock personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, Kembra Pfahler, and Henry Rollins in movies like "The Right Side of My Brain" and "Fingered." Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion and was one of the leading lights of Nick Zedd's coined Cinema of Transgression.
Kern's first dabbling in the arts was a series of self-produced underground magazines featuring art, poetry, photography, and fiction by Kern and several friends. Kern's first zine was the bi-monthly "The Heroin Addict," which was later renamed to "The Valium Addict." The hand-stapled photocopied magazines (a.k.a. zines) featured writing and images that expressed the bleakness of New York City's East Village in the early 1980s. About 12 issues of these two zines were produced, along with the occasional special issue. This phase of Kern's career lasted from late 1979 to around 1983.
In 1985, Kern directed a video for the Sonic Youth song, "Death Valley 69", which led to more music video work, including videos for King Missile ("Detachable Penis") and Marilyn Manson ("Lunchbox").
Kern can also be credited with discovering Lung Leg, the star of his film You Killed Me First and the cover model for Sonic Youth's EVOL album (a still shot from the film). Along with other Cinema of Transgression filmmakers he is a subject of Jack Sargeant's book Deathtripping.
He is also represented as an artist by Jousse Entreprise gallery in Paris.
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