Death Valley 69 (1986)

 Death Valley 69 (1986) 

From The Hardcore Collection (1984-1993)

 Death Valley '69 is a video for the Sonic Youth song of the same name. The song originally appeared on the "Bad Moon Rising" album from way back in 1985, at about the same time as Kern was making those Super 8 gross-out masterpieces starring the lovely "Lung Leg" ... who later graced the cover of the SY album "EVOL." There is a great gory sequence in the DV '69 music video that looks like pieces of liver or stomach (or something...) plopped down in front of a very crudely "killed" Steve Shelley (SY's drummer at the time the video was shot). Kern's very distinctive Super 8 style (glittery, high contrast, extremely low budget, and super gross-out) that was - and I know this is hard to believe - really, really popular in the New York art scene in the eighties is captured here in it's full glory. (IMDB brendanP)