Richard Kern

Holly Adams plays an attractive but rather repressed young woman who shambles homeward from her dull office job, checks her horoscope (not very promising) and promptly falls asleep in front of the tv. Two naked young men appear in her living room and begin dancing naked for her pleasure. (imdb)

Death Valley '69 is a video for the Sonic Youth song of the same name. The song originally appeared on the "Bad Moon Rising" album from way back in 1985, at about the same time as Kern was making those Super 8 gross-out masterpieces starring the lovely "Lung Leg" (imdb)

A short film that features several attractive women in a portrayal of the all-American obsession with firearms.

Sadomasochistic images of self mutilation.

Part sexual fetishism, part self-loathing, the film acknowledges the relationship between the director's voyeurism, lust, and power, whilst simultaneously deconstructing the absurdity of such relationships. (BFI Film & TV Database)

PIERCE is a short film of a real woman (friend of director Kern) getting her nipples pierced. The camera goes in really close so you know it's actually happening. (imdb)

This film, "My Nightmare" revolves around the sexual perversion of a photographer.' (imdb User Comments)

Two competing women seduce a man, and the trio participates in a threesome that ends up reversing gender identities. (efilmcritic.com)

"Submit to Me" is a 1985 Super-8 film directed by Richard Kern. It dispenses with narrative entirely, being simply a record of brief performances by some of Kern's friends and actors. A series of scenes depicting bondage, violence, sex, suicide, self-mutilation, crucifixion, blow jobs and other divertissements are on florid display here, many of which were suggested to Kern by the actors themselves. (MUBI)

You Killed Me First succeeds as a grainy snapshot of a particular time and place: Richard Kern's brain in the mid-1980s. (Bright Lights Journal)

FINGERED is an art film that's constructed like a regular movie. Lydia Lunch plays a phone sex operator/prostitute that gets together with a guy she's been on the phone with. After a semi-hardcore sex scene, the violence begins. The man cuts someone's throat for looking at Lydia's character, then they go for a drive. The two abduct a hitch hiker and rape her in a junkyard. (imdb)

The Manhattan Love Suicides are a series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now. (imdb)

The Sexual Misadventures of a Sexually Insane Girl (imdb)

The locale is an artificial place, a studio space walled with photographers' cloth. Into this walks a performance artist, Kembra Pfahler, who was a post- Warhol New York diva of the absurd. She's wearing the most outrageous thing she could imagine in street clothes: a cutoff shirt that says "young republicans," a garter and black stockings. Nothing else. For no apparent reason, she lies down and has a piercer and assistant sew about four loose stitches across her vagina. (imdb)

A man is wandering the streets while a woman commits suicide in her apartment. The man later finds the woman and sexually abuses her dead body.

A sadistic evangelist leads a mindless pack of Americans in a fatal game of "Simon says." (P.P.O.W.)

Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern. (mubi.com)

Photographer Richard Kern likes real women: unpretentious, unadorned, and definitely undressed. Those who love Kern's books know each is an invitation to join him as he follows them through their homes-or his New York apartment-from backyard to kitchen to bathroom to bedroom, capturing every sexy and embarrassing moment. Extra Action documents 60 of these innocent amateur incidents set to an original musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. (imdb)

A woman struggles with the men in her life for the right to drive her own car.

A crazed fan follows a painter to his apartment.

A woman scars herself as a surprise for her scared husband.

Faces and panties, panties and faces.

Musician and filmmaker Annabelle Davies dances and strips.

A Catholic student has a serious crisis of faith.