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Blood, Bondage and Skin on Film

New York in the 80’s was a weird and fucked up place, full of weirdos who gave the city its color! I was a little kid living on the west coast, but I would read the Village Voice weekly trying to see what was happening in the NYC art and punk scene. Names like Suicide, Blondie, Television, Warhol and Richard Kerns started to mean something to me – they all represented artistic freedom, which made me feel like I was not alone. Don’t even get me started about Lydia Lunch – she is an underground Goddess that I will always have a crush on. Richard Kerns has been many things in his lifetime, and one of them was a director of subversive films that pushed the limits before this term became the norm. Today I want you to check out his 1980’s short film “Submit To Me,” which is a perverse underground classic with a killer soundtrack that was provided by the Butthole Surfers (craziest band ever – but that’s another story). This film is what the Lower East Side of NYC was all about during this era…Push play and step back into a time before NYC became a corporate whore!

 

Submit To Me (1986) by Richard Kern from Richard Kern on Vimeo.

 

13 Comments

13 Comments

  1. Allen Inman

    April 9, 2016 at 11:52 am

    Love the whole cinema of transgression – but there’s a certain spoken-word ‘artist’ in there that, once having met her, made me get rid of a couple records, for sure.

  2. Johnny Prinz Stovner

    April 8, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    Yessiree!! That´s the stuff! Love all around here… Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, Lung Leg… Love Love Love!

  3. Scott Dan Dan

    April 8, 2016 at 7:07 pm

    Fingered

  4. Michael Banting

    April 8, 2016 at 2:32 pm

    Inego Montoya this is really cool.

  5. Jerome Reuter

    April 8, 2016 at 11:55 am

    Right Side Of My Brain is one of Richard Kern’s best films.

  6. Katherine L. Echols Moore

    April 8, 2016 at 6:53 am

    Malcolm Mohr Not to be confused with “Submit To Me Now”

  7. Alison McLaren

    April 8, 2016 at 6:22 am

    Russ Clayton

    • Russ Clayton

      April 8, 2016 at 8:23 am

      Yes.Just a massive YES💣💉💥…..🍑🍌🍑.

  8. Mel Doumbos

    April 8, 2016 at 5:39 am

    Mahira Parvez-Rojas

    • Mahira Parvez-Rojas

      April 8, 2016 at 5:43 am

      Chewed through that book so fast! You’ll definitely get it back at Roadburn next week! 😉

  9. Ysabel Shrapnel

    April 8, 2016 at 1:55 am

    Johnny Prinz Stovner have a look in here <3

  10. Aram Schwartz

    April 8, 2016 at 1:49 am

    you want to fuck a performer. edgy shit <3

  11. Petri Brander

    April 8, 2016 at 1:22 am

    Saw her live a couple years back, she’s phenomenal!

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