Aryan Kaganof Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A devastating assault on conformity culture, neo-liberal politics, literary pretension and the all-around follies of the Western world. Using,...

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

The two sides of the end of culture–in all the aspects of knowledge as well as in all the aspects of perceptible representations exist in a...

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

Brooding pimp Sugar Man escorts his three ladies of the night (Sugars) to various clients on Christmas Eve in Johannesburg, South Africa. He takes...

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

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...

"Love is the only thing subject to negotiation in feature film debut which betrays admiration for the formal rigidity of Straub and Zwartjes." "The...

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

1991 experimental short 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...