Aryan Kaganof Movies

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

The first full-length feature film shot entirely on cell phone cameras.

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

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

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

“Click Here to Unsubscribe”, Aryan Kaganof’s latest short film, commemorates the revolutionary values of May ’68, 40 years...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

1990 short experimental film 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...

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

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...

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

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