Aryan Kaganof Movies

  • 2003
    Sharp, Sharp! - The Kwaito Story

    Sharp, Sharp! - The Kwaito Story

    Sharp, Sharp! - The Kwaito Story

    02003HD

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

    Sharp, Sharp! - The Kwaito Story
  • 2001
    Western 4.33

    Western 4.33

    Western 4.33

    02001HD

    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...

    Western 4.33
  • 1990
    Crash

    Crash

    Crash

    01990HD

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

    Crash
  • 1970
    A funeral : a strategy of difference and repetition

    A funeral : a strategy of difference and repetition

    A funeral : a strategy of difference and repetition

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

    A funeral : a strategy of difference and repetition
  • 1991
    Egmond Ghost Poem

    Egmond Ghost Poem

    Egmond Ghost Poem

    01991HD

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

    Egmond Ghost Poem
  • 1990
    The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax

    The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax

    The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax

    01990HD

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

    The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax
  • 2004
    Reich Dance Redemption

    Reich Dance Redemption

    Reich Dance Redemption

    02004HD

    Distorted postvideo fragments featuring music by Berlin inconoclast Alec Empire set to frantically edited hypertextbombs. Text from the novel...

    Reich Dance Redemption
  • 1995
    Matthew Barney: Creating Stories

    Matthew Barney: Creating Stories

    Matthew Barney: Creating Stories

    01995HD

    Filmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior (1998)."

    Matthew Barney: Creating Stories
  • 1992
    Kyodai Makes the Big Time

    Kyodai Makes the Big Time

    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...

    Kyodai Makes the Big Time
  • 2015
    The Promise of Water

    The Promise of Water

    The Promise of Water

    02015HD

    If I sometimes film anything political, it is by necessity focused on the terror of normality which totally dominates all the channels which are...

    The Promise of Water
  • 2010
    Katjira's Two Funerals

    Katjira's Two Funerals

    Katjira's Two Funerals

    02010HD

    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...

    Katjira's Two Funerals
  • 1999
    Ron Athey Is the Trojan Whore

    Ron Athey Is the Trojan Whore

    Ron Athey Is the Trojan Whore

    01999HD

    In this documentary Kerkhof takes the viewer into a bizarre underworld, the sub-culture of blood art and body piercing performance art. Kerkhof's...

    Ron Athey Is the Trojan Whore
  • 1990
    Stations of the Cross

    Stations of the Cross

    Stations of the Cross

    01990HD

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

    Stations of the Cross
  • 2014
    Mother's Day (Frans Zwartjes re-mix)

    Mother's Day (Frans Zwartjes re-mix)

    Mother's Day (Frans Zwartjes re-mix)

    02014HD

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

    Mother's Day (Frans Zwartjes re-mix)
  • 2004
    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

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    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (2002) is the fifth of seven films in Kaganof's The Suprematist Compositions. These compositions...

    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
  • 2007
    A Symbolic Exchange

    A Symbolic Exchange

    A Symbolic Exchange

    02007HD

    “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...

    A Symbolic Exchange
  • 1998
    Acèphale's First Recording / The Resurrection

    Acèphale's First Recording / The Resurrection

    Acèphale's First Recording / The Resurrection

    01998HD

    Acèphale is an artistic cell of solo and group performances involving various members. It has performed internationally in such countries as...

    Acèphale's First Recording / The Resurrection
  • 2003
    DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII

    DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII

    DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII

    42003HD

    (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...

    DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII
  • 2000
    Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix

    Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix

    Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix

    52000HD

    In 2000, Kaganof collaborated with four other filmmakers on the cinematic manifesto Sonic Fragments - The Poetics of Digital Fragmentation (2000). ...

    Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix
  • 2014
    In Media Res

    In Media Res

    In Media Res

    42014HD

    After the first time she swore it was the last time. She would never fuck again. Not ever.

    In Media Res