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    Richard Kern

    Trying to get some life into the Underground forum, so I figured Richard Kern was worthy of a thread.

    "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 and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, 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." (Taken from Wikipedia)

    Richard Kern is probably the best filmmaker from the CoT movement. Nick Zedd isn't too bad either, but Richard Kern was always one step ahead. He has some really interesting films, be it his early underground stuff, or his later model/softcore stuff. He just seems to be one of the few from the movement with actual talent. I have these two DVDs and recommend both if you think it's your type of films:


    The Hardcore Collection contains:
    Death Vallet '69
    Right Side of My Brain
    You Killed Me First
    The Bitches
    The Sewing Circle
    Fingered
    Submit To Me Now
    My Nightmare
    Horoscope
    X is Y
    Manhattan Love Suicides
    Submit To Me
    The Evil Camera Man



    Extra Action (and Extra Hardcore) contains:
    Extra Action
    The King of Sex
    Pierce
    Scooter and Jinx
    Catholic
    Nazi
    Goodbye 42nd Street


    I'd say if you don't know of his work, start with The Hardcore Collection. It's not only his best stuff, but it's probably more what underground fans would want.

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    The Hardcore Collection is great, Fingered is a classic IMO and the short with Henry Rollins ( sorry the name escapes me, been awhile since I've seen it) smacking around that kid is pretty cool.

    How is Extra Action? I have never heard of this one before.

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    Extra Action is more like his nude photography than his older stuff, except for bonus material/short films.

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    Are Death Valley '69 and Scooter and Jinx the Sonic Youth videos?

    I've had my eye on the Hardcore Collection DVD for awhile now and really should get round to picking it up.

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    Yeah they are Sonic Youth videos. I'm not into Sonic Youth, so I don't know if Scooter and Jinx is an official music video (the song seems awfully short) but it has music by them.

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    I love Richard Kern and the Hardcore DVD is a must for all undrground/transgressional cinema fans! Right Side Of My Brain (the Henry Rollins short someone mentioned earlier), Fingered and Submit To Me are some of my favorites. Kenneth Anger is another notable mention in this genre.

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