Richard Kern
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Richard Kern (born 1954) is an American underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to prominence as part of the cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films like The Right Side of My Brain and Fingered, which featured personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Kembra Pfahler, Karen Finley and Henry Rollins. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence and perversion and was involved in the Cinema of Transgression movement, a term coined by Nick Zedd.
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States |
Occupation(s) | Filmmaker, writer, photographer |
Years active | 1979–present |
Spouse | Martynka Wawrzyniak (2007–2015) |
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