Movies

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

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

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

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

The aftermath of an experience with Heroin causes a man to destroy anything within his path.

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...

Richard Kern 2019.

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

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

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

Director Richard Kern and model Susan McNamara engage in a chaotic fast-cut blend of fantasy and reality. A satire of some of Kern's own early work.

Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm.

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...

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

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...

The alternate Richard Kern version.

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

A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with...

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director...