Aryan Kaganof Movies

A devastating assault on conformity culture, neo-liberal politics, literary pretension and the all-around follies of the Western world. Using,...

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...

Documentary about and with the Japanese electronic composer and artist Merzbow.

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...

The film follows three rapists in South Africa, who live in a rape culture. Sexual, verbal, political, moral and psychological rape is common...

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...

Short documentary on Japanese noise artist Merzbow by South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. Filmed on location at the Kamakura Temple, Japan, 1997.

The Dead Man returns, but it's too late to save us. We are already dead.

"A film about musicologists who can’t dance, nonetheless dancing in, and (not) talking about, a landscape they cannot see, not because they are...

This documentary explores kwaito music developed in South Africa in the late 1990s and includes interviews with musicians, DJ's and producers as well...

Philosophical road-movie about the deranged paedophile Friedrich Nietzsche and his murder obsessed self-mutilating sister Elisabeth. Publisher:...

1990 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof

Synopsis: a radikal re-mix by Aryan Kaganof of three Frans Zwartjes films commissioned by Frank Scheffer. Background: Kaganof was once a student...

There is nothing you can do about it. You are overwhelmed with images. They carry you away. they replace you, you are dreaming. The spectacle is life...

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...

Master 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...

I 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...

Oedipus and Punishment (2005) is an adaptation of a pre-existent sketch in Aryan Kaganof's early masterpiece Ten Monologues from the Lives of the...

I 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...

Portraits of a Young Orphan Jewish Girl from Eastern-Europe (2003) is a very short film, a confirmation of the possibility of creating cinematic...