Aryan Kaganof Movies
- 1998

Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow
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Documentary about and with the Japanese electronic composer and artist Merzbow.
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- 2007

The Third Aktion
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South African auteur Aryan Kaganof plunders George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Alain Resnais' L'année dernière...
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- 2002

Pale Blue Eyes
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This 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...
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- 2003

DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII
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(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...
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- 2004

“Nique ta mère!”
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“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...
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- 2004

Self-Portrait With Nanny
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Self-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...
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- 2001

Venus in Furs
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While still living in Amsterdam under his birth name 'Ian Kerkhof,' Aryan Kaganof co-penned the script for his friends Victor Nieuwenhuijs and...
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- 2007

A Symbolic Exchange
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“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...
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- 1991

Bloodbath
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1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof
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- 2003

Nicola's First Orgasm
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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...
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- 1992

Kyodai Makes the Big Time
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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...
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- 1995

Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Rape Me!
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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...
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- 1990

Crash
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1990 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof
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- 2001

Western 4.33
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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...
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- 2004

A Sacrifice
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A SACRIFICE (South Africa, 2003, 13min19sec, 16mm/DVcam) A re-mix of the experimental classic CORRIDOR (1970) by Standish Lawder, with music by...
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- 2002

Primal Scene
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PRIMAL SCENE: in Freudian analysis the traumatic moment when the child sees its parents engaged in sexual intercourse for the first time. Short film...
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- 1995

Matthew Barney: Creating Stories
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Filmmaker 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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- 2003

Sharp, Sharp! - The Kwaito Story
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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...
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- 1970

The Body Conquers The Invisible Territory of the Soul
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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...
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- 1998

Signal to Noise
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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.
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