Richard Kern — Playwright (11)
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Horoscope (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Horoscope
director: Richard Kern actor: Holly Adams / Bob Mook …
Holly Adams plays an attractive but rather repressed young woman. She checks her horoscope, shambles homeward from her dull office job and promptly falls asleep in front of the TV. Two naked young men appear in her living room and begin dancing around for her pleasure.
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Fingered (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Fingered
director: Richard Kern actor: Lydia Lunch / Lung Leg …
One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to shock, insult, or irritate, you have been warned that we are catering only to our own preferences.” The film came about following the criticism of Kern and Lydia Lunch's first collaborative venture: The Right Side of My Brain (1984).
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Scooter & Jinx - Tumble - Catholic - Nazi (1991) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Tumble
director: Richard Kern actor: Linda Serbu
other title: Tumble
Tumble demonstrates Richard Kern’s departure from narrative filmmaking in the early nineties. He was clearly more interested now in photography, and specially in the merging of documentary and model photography.
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Submit to Me Now (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Submit to Me Now
director: Richard Kern actor: Lung Leg / Amy Turner …
other title: 现在服从我
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.
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The Bitches (1992) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
The Bitches
director: Richard Kern actor: 琳达·瑟芬 / Annabelle Davies …
other title: 婊子们
Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other.
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You Killed Me First (1985) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
You Killed Me First
director: Richard Kern actor: Lung Leg / David Wojnarowicz
other title: 你先杀了我
Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den. When confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"
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X Is Y (1990) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
X Is Y
director: Richard Kern actor: 琳达·瑟芬 / 克里斯蒂娜·霍约斯
other title: X等于Y
Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.