Aryan Kaganof is a South African film maker, novelist, poet and fine artist.
One does not learn the art of Blind Fiilmmaking, one lives and experiences it, for no science will give you the key to the mysteries of the soul. One cannot become a good Blind Filmmaker without turning oneself into an object of study, evincing daily inter ...
Watch NowDecolonising Wits is filmmaker and author Aryan Kaganof's feature-length film looking at the Wits University end of what has come to be called the #RhodesMustFall movement. ...
Watch NowIf I sometimes film anything political, it is by necessity focused on the terror of normality which totally dominates all the channels which are supposed to contain free communication. The stagnation is absolute. ...
Watch Now"A film about musicologists who can't dance, nonetheless dancing in, and (not) talking about, a landscape they cannot see, not because they are blind, but because they; like Neville Chamberlain – whose grimly baffling lack of insight they bring to mind: ...
Watch NowSynopsis: a radikal re-mix by Aryan Kaganof of three Frans Zwartjes films commissioned by Frank Scheffer. Background: Kaganof was once a student of Frans Zwartjes. When Kaganof himself began lecturing himself, he began giving his students the following ...
Watch NowAfter the first time she swore it was the last time. She would never fuck again. Not ever. ...
Watch NowA reconstruction of the history of South Africa's first opera company, Eoan, and an exercise in getting at the truth, not only showing what it meant to be "a colored" during the apartheid regime, but also evoking the painful memories of that time. Intervie ...
Watch NowSociety Of The Spectacle (2013) is basically a remix of Kaganof's Guy Debord tribute Click Here to Unsubscribe (2008), albeit at about ten times the speed. ...
Watch NowThis is a rare unreleased Aryan Kaganof short that has never been released in any form. It features scenes from Kaganof's early feature The Mozart Bird (1993), including scenes that were cut from the film. Sweetness was also inspired by the theories of G ...
Watch NowElelwani is a young university-educated woman who has been brought up in an environment steeped in tradition. Her parents have promised her hand in marriage to the Vendaking and, as a dutiful daughter, she wants to obey their wishes. But in order to fulfil ...
Watch NowVenom And Eternity For Dummies (2012) is a tribute to letterist poet Isidore Isou (On Venom and Eternity). The film utilizes excerpts from Kaganof's own first feature Kyodai Makes the Big Time (1992). ...
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A devastating assault on conformity culture, neo-liberal politics, literary pretension and the all-around follies of the Western world. Using, ironically, anti-art strategies—appropriation, violation and collage—Kaganof splinters the division between t ...
Watch NowThe hour-long documentary, entitled Die Ander Rebellie, delves into aspects of the recent labour unrest mostly hidden from view in daily media reports. Filmed on location in places like Hangberg, Smartietown, Cloetesville, Heuwelkroon, Boesmanskloof, Rond ...
Watch NowMaster griot Katjira's death, which is the beginning of this film, sets off a series of discussions within his tribe about the future of the tribe and particularly about who katjira's successor should be. A decade after Katjira's death no successor has bee ...
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"Click Here to Unsubscribe", Aryan Kaganof's latest short film, commemorates the revolutionary values of May '68, 40 years on. This outstanding film had its world premiere in Johannesburg on March 15th 2008, a few days after its author settled in Sweden. W ...
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Brooding pimp Sugar Man escorts his three ladies of the night (Sugars) to various clients on Christmas Eve in Johannesburg, South Africa. He takes out a hit on a supposed romantic rival, while the ladies deal with some of the pitfalls of the job. All are p ...
Watch NowSouth African auteur Aryan Kaganof plunders George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Alain Resnais' L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961) AKA Last Year at Marienbad. On the Jozi side up there's the mysterious cerebra of noise and relative E ...
Watch Now"A man thinks when he touches a woman's body it is only her body he is touching. It really is her soul, her brain, her creative power." Olive Schreiner. ...
Watch NowI am not learned; I am not ignorant. I have known joys. That is saying too little: I am alive, and this life gives me the greatest pleasure. And what about death? When I die (perhaps any minute now), I will feel immense pleasure. I am not talking about the ...
Watch NowOedipus and Punishment (2005) is an adaptation of a pre-existent sketch in Aryan Kaganof's early masterpiece Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers (1994), which the auteur made when he still went by his birth name 'Ian Kerkhof.' The film fea ...
Watch NowJaap Hoogstra: Geboorte Werd Hem Zijn Dood (2005) AKA Jaap Hoogstra - A Piece of Monologue is a portrait of the gay Dutch theatre actor Jaap Hoogstra (1915–1998), who is famous for bringing Samuel Beckett to the Lowlands. The portrait centers on Jaap di ...
Watch NowA SACRIFICE (South Africa, 2003, 13min19sec, 16mm/DVcam) A re-mix of the experimental classic CORRIDOR (1970) by Standish Lawder, with music by Jaques Casteréde and Geez n Gosh. world premiere was at the National Arts festival in Grahamstown. ...
Watch NowTime Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (2002) is the fifth of seven films in Kaganof's The Suprematist Compositions. These compositions are concerned with the nature of deity and are Kaganof's own personal favorites of his voluminous work, cle ...
Watch NowSelf-portrait with Nanny (2004) is a gem from last year. The faded images of Kaganof as a baby put to retro burlesque music are a reference to the silent films of long ago. Once again, Kaganof pays homage to popular cinema, for this film is a perfect essay ...
Watch Now"Nique ta mère!" (2004) is a 'Radikal-Re:Mix' of Kaganof's own Georges Bataille adaptation The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man (1994) that incorporates new music and tons of new footage. The film was commissioned by the French industrial music outfit ...
Watch NowA human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind ...
Watch NowI walk on the rim of the abyss, and I tremble. Two voices contend within me. The mind: "Why waste ourselves by pursuing the impossible? Within the holy enclosure of our five senses it is our duty to acknowledge the limitations of man." But another voice ...
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Distorted postvideo fragments featuring music by Berlin inconoclast Alec Empire set to frantically edited hypertextbombs. Text from the novel BLACKHEART by Lesego Rampolokeng who also supplies the vocals. ...
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This documentary explores kwaito music developed in South Africa in the late 1990s and includes interviews with musicians, DJ's and producers as well as music clips. It was made for Dutch television and later sold to the SABC for repeated broadcasts. ...
Watch Now(South Africa, 17 July 2003, 5min, DV) This short film is a collaboration of Aryan Kaganof and Nicola Deane (director of photography) and part of the VIRGINS series. Music of Beethoven played by Anatol Ugorski. ...
Watch NowPortraits of a Young Orphan Jewish Girl from Eastern-Europe (2003) is a very short film, a confirmation of the possibility of creating cinematic masterpieces with an non-existent budget. The charming portrait of this young girl is sublimated with incessant ...
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"We cannot abstain from watching the revelation of a being that would be an object neither for herself nor for any other gaze and yet which would effect, in the mystery of her own invisibility, the condensation of all objectivity." Aryan Kaganof plays wit ...
Watch NowThis is an ultra rare and unreleased 6 1/2 minute Aryan Kaganof short that was shot in Amsterdam in 1992 but not edited together until 2002 after the director moved back to South Africa. Kaganof merely projected the old 1992 16mm footage onto a screen and ...
Watch NowPRIMAL SCENE: in Freudian analysis the traumatic moment when the child sees its parents engaged in sexual intercourse for the first time. Short film by Aryan Kaganof. ...
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Vertiginous documentary, shot in effective black-and-white, treats two painful histories. The first is a love story about a truck driver who, on his way from Johannesburg (South Africa) to Luderitz (Namibia), is haunted by thoughts of his girlfriend and th ...
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The two sides of the end of culture–in all the aspects of knowledge as well as in all the aspects of perceptible representations exist in a unified manner in what used to be art in the most general sense. In the case of knowledge, the accumulation of bra ...
Watch NowWhile still living in Amsterdam under his birth name 'Ian Kerkhof,' Aryan Kaganof co-penned the script for his friends Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth's debut feature Venus in Furs (1995), which is undoubtedly the most faithful cinematic adaptatio ...
Watch NowIn 2000, Kaganof collaborated with four other filmmakers on the cinematic manifesto Sonic Fragments - The Poetics of Digital Fragmentation (2000). Later, Kaganof would re-edit his segment and release it as the 'remix manifesto' Sonic Fragments: The Radik ...
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In this documentary Kerkhof takes the viewer into a bizarre underworld, the sub-culture of blood art and body piercing performance art. Kerkhof's camera registered a performance by the American blood artist Ron Athey which took place during the FREAK ZONE ...
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Fugitive Jack is doing everything in his power to evade both the police and gangsters. Assuming he's in the clear, he moves in with Keiko, a pornstar whose early life in an abusive family still haunts her. ...
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Short documentary on Japanese noise artist Merzbow by South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. Filmed on location at the Kamakura Temple, Japan, 1997. ...
Watch NowThis is a never released piece of video art created by Aryan Kaganof when he still went by his birth name 'Ian Kerkhof' based on an installation he created in 'tribute' to Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel. Part doc and part video art, there is certainly a sor ...
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Documentary about and with the Japanese electronic composer and artist Merzbow. ...
Watch NowAcèphale is an artistic cell of solo and group performances involving various members. It has performed internationally in such countries as the United States, Germany, Italy, Holland, Mongolia and Japan. Acèphale takes its name from the clandestine cult ...
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But happily Kerkhof the uncompromising iconoclast is back. With his newest film RON ATHEY: IT'S SCRIPTED (the original title RON ATHEY: SO MANY WAYS TO SAY HALLELUJAH had to be changed because there is already a 2 hour documentary in production under this ...
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Twentysomething innocents Jacqui and Martijn move to Amsterdam and immerse themselves in the intense and drug-laden underground club scene. Life turns out to be far more complicated, difficult, and dangerous than they bargained for. Their relationship is t ...
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I think at bottom, that the structure of the film is the structure of the person's mind who made it, and if that is a mind that is striving for effect because it is striving for effect, the film will be empty, however interesting it happens to be on the su ...
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What makes "Techno: Space and Flow in the Radical Frame" such an exceptional documentary is the manner in which the interviews are woven into a 50 minute long techno videoclip. The filmmaker has fully exploited all the existing digital video techniques in ...
Watch NowFilmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior (1998). ...
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The film follows three rapists in South Africa, who live in a rape culture. Sexual, verbal, political, moral and psychological rape is common practice. ...
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Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title: ten monologues adapted from various fiction and documentary sources w ...
Watch NowThe Dead Man returns, but it's too late to save us. We are already dead. ...
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Howard and Selene are two English-speaking foreigners living in Amsterdam who begin a casual affair that turns serious and then starts to deteriorate. It is the second part in Aryan Kaganof's Urban Wasteland Serial. ...
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Short film in which a group of children get to know the Enge Knijperman (the Grisly Pincher Man) who falls madly in love with the Onderstebovenvrouw (Upside-down Woman). However the 220-Volt-Witch and the Toilet Slave set out to spoil things. Experimental ...
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"Love is the only thing subject to negotiation in feature film debut which betrays admiration for the formal rigidity of Straub and Zwartjes." "The film, KYODAI MAKES THE BIG TIME, caused a commotion in the Netherlands when it won the Golden Calf for Best ...
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The film opens with a rubber-clad woman stepping sensuously out of a limousine. The camera lovingly closes-up on her stilletoed foot... She enters a dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men, who proceed to chain her up and worship her body. Originally p ...
Watch Now1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof ...
Watch Now1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof ...
Watch Now1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof ...
Watch Now1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof ...
Watch Now1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof ...
Watch Now1990 short experimental film by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof ...
Watch Now1990 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof ...
Watch Now1990 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof ...
Watch NowBrooding pimp Sugar Man escorts his three ladies of the night (Sugars) to various clients on Christmas Eve in Johannesburg, South Africa. He takes out a hit on a supposed romantic rival, while the ladies deal with some of the pitfalls of the job. All are p ...
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This film was shot entirely in Rotterdam and shows the German couple David (Helmut Berger) and Tanya (Sheri Hagen) who are kept by Ludwig (Udo Kier), David's half-brother. Ludwig has some dubious business to do and so he is staying in the port for a while. ...
Watch NowBased on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title: ten monologues adapted from various fiction and documentary sources w ...
Watch NowShort film in which a group of children get to know the Enge Knijperman (the Grisly Pincher Man) who falls madly in love with the Onderstebovenvrouw (Upside-down Woman). However the 220-Volt-Witch and the Toilet Slave set out to spoil things. Experimental ...
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