Aryan Kaganof Movies

  • 2013
    An Inconsolable Memory

    An Inconsolable Memory

    An Inconsolable Memory

    02013HD

    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...

    An Inconsolable Memory
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    The Third Aktion

    The Third Aktion

    The Third Aktion

    02007HD

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

    The Third Aktion
  • 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
  • 2010
    Die Ander Rebellie

    Die Ander Rebellie

    Die Ander Rebellie

    02010HD

    The hour-long documentary, entitled Die Ander Rebellie, delves into aspects of the recent labour unrest mostly hidden from view in daily media...

    Die Ander Rebellie
  • 2007
    Suprematist composition #36:

    Suprematist composition #36:

    Suprematist composition #36:

    02007HD

    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...

    Suprematist composition #36:
  • 1996
    MINNAMANNA

    MINNAMANNA

    MINNAMANNA

    01996HD

    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...

    MINNAMANNA
  • 1996
    TECHNO: Space and Flow in the Radical frame

    TECHNO: Space and Flow in the Radical frame

    TECHNO: Space and Flow in the Radical frame

    01996HD

    What makes Techono: Space and flow in the radical frame such an exceptional documentary is the manner in which the interviews are woven intoa 50...

    TECHNO: Space and Flow in the Radical frame
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

    02004HD

    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
  • 2004
    A Sacrifice

    A Sacrifice

    A Sacrifice

    02004HD

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

    A Sacrifice
  • 1991
    Carnage in the Charnel House

    Carnage in the Charnel House

    Carnage in the Charnel House

    01991HD

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

    Carnage in the Charnel House
  • 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
  • 1991
    The Solipsist

    The Solipsist

    The Solipsist

    01991HD

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

    The Solipsist
  • 2002
    Pale Blue Eyes

    Pale Blue Eyes

    Pale Blue Eyes

    02002HD

    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...

    Pale Blue Eyes