Aryan Kaganof Movies

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

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

A 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...

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...

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...

Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this...

This 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...

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

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

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

Decolonising Wits is filmmaker and author Aryan Kaganof’s feature-length film looking at the Wits University end of what has come to be called...

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...

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

A 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...

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

The Murder Mystery (2004) is an adaptation of a pre-existent sketch in Aryan Kaganof's early masterpiece Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial...

“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...

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...

This 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...

(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...