birth_place birth_date spouse article_title name
roanoke rapids , north carolina , united states 1954 martynka wawrzyniak richard kern
 richard kern
richard kern

`` for the police officer , see nypd subway sodomy scandal '' richard kern -lrb- born 1954 in north carolina -rrb- 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 , karen finley 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 the movement which nick zedd coined the cinema of transgression .
