Director: Richard Kern

Cast: Lydia Lunch   Nick Zedd   Richard Kern

Footage: 170min

Year: 2000

导演: Richard Kern

主演：Lydia Lunch   Nick Zedd   Richard Kern

片长: 170分钟

出品时间: 2000

New York City based performance artist and photographer Richard Kern always focuses  in the darkest side and pierces of the human nature. This is a collection of thirteen short films from 1980's to early 1990's.

纽约行为艺术家、摄影家Richard Kern总是喜欢尖锐地对准人性的阴暗面。这张作品集收集了1980年代到1990年代早期的13部短片。

The Right Side of My Brain   我的右脑

25'  1985

The usual rituals of daily life are suspended in this study in psychological free fall, as Lydia Lunch spends her time squirming in bed, undressing, fondling her tits, and submitting to some violent sex with a mysterious grunge boy with a gun.

日常生活琐事按心理学方式自由表现出来，Lydia Lunch在床上扭动身体，脱衣服，抚摸乳房，并且与一个带枪的诡秘邋遢的男孩激烈做爱。

The Manhattan Love Suicides   曼哈顿爱的自杀

36'  1985

Made up of four vignettes: "Stray Dogs" has a model trying to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart. "Woman at the Wheel" has a gal and a new car, and how the men in her life won't let her enjoy driving. "Thrust in Me" has a woman committing suicide, and her boyfriend's rather strange reaction. "I Hate You Now" has a disfigured dealer and his girlfriend, who decides to join him in his disability with the help of a steam iron.

由四小节组成：“迷路的狗”讲一个模特为了引起画家注意而变得支离破碎；“驾车的女子”讲的是一个女孩和一辆新车，男友就是不让她享受驾驶乐趣；“刺入我”是说一个女子想自杀，他的男友作出很奇怪的反应；“我现在恨你”讲一个毁容商人的女友，为了和他一样决定用电熨斗烫伤自己。

Submit to Me   服从我

10'  1986

It dispenses with narrative entirely, being simply a record of brief performances by some of Kern’s friends and actors.

完全省略了叙述，由Kern的朋友和演员出演。

You Killed Me First   你先杀了我

11'  1985

Teen angst is taken to a bloody finale in this badly written and directed short. It's a critique of middlebrow American life.

在这部邪恶的短片中少年人的忧虑导致了血腥的结果。它是对美国中产生活的批判。

The Evil Cameraman   邪恶的摄影师

11'  1990

Kern is himself, putting female models through hell.

Kern自己出演，把女模特折腾了一番。

Fingered   手指

24'  1986

The film opens with Lydia Lunch as a phone-sex operator who hooks up with one of her clients. They go on a crime spree, assaulting various friends, strangers, and terrorizing a young teen girl.

影片开始Lydia Lunch是一个色情热线接线员，她和一个顾客勾搭在一起。然后就开始了一场犯罪闹剧，袭击朋友和陌生人，还恐吓一个年轻女孩。

Submit to Me Now   现在服从我

19'  1987

The cast of the film act out various sadomasochistic practices before it delves into gory self mutilation.

演员们先是演出了一些施虐受虐的行为，后来就是自残。

X is Y   X就是Y

3'  1990

This is a pointless exercise in images as attractive women sport guns and rifles.

这是一个没有明确目的的影像练习，妩媚的女人玩枪。

Horoscope   占星术

4'  1991

A young woman reads her horoscope at work, goes home, and fantasizes that she is being fought over by two nude men.

一个年轻女性工作时读占星术的书，回到家，幻想着与两个裸体男子共舞。

The Bitches   婊子们

9'  1992

Two competing women seduce a man. They glare, dress up, give attitude, change clothes, curl their hair, and smolder......

两个互相竞争的女人在引诱一个男人，他们怒目而视，装扮自己，耍脾气，换衣服，卷头发，怒火中烧......

Death Valley 69   死亡峡谷69

6'  1986

Faked crime scenes, cruise missiles, gun toting band members. The film is a catalog of violent teenage wish-fulfillment fantasies via giant switchblades, martyred teens who’ve been eviscerated, and attacks by cops with tear gas.

伪造的犯罪场景，巡航导弹，荷枪实弹的人。该片是暴力少年完美理想的记录，有大弹簧刀，有被取出内脏的苦难少年，还被警察用催泪弹袭击。

The Sewing Circle   妇女缝纫会

7'  1992

Two women sew another woman's vagina. "It’s so fabulous!" — It undoubtedly bolstered some critics’ view of Kern as a misogynist taking pleasure in the literal suppression of female sexuality.

两个女人将另一个女人的性器官缝合。“真难以置信！”——它无疑支持了一些批评家的观点，Kern是厌女狂，在压制女性性征活动中获得满足。

My Nightmare   我的恶梦

6'  1993

Kern himself appears as a photographer who masturbates to a sexual fantasy of his model but the real thing shows up and is not as uninhibited as he would like.

Kern扮演一个摄影师，他想象着模特自慰，事实证明他不能像想象中那样无拘无束。

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