Aryan Kaganof Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

Portraits of a Young Orphan Jewish Girl from Eastern-Europe (2003) is a very short film, a confirmation of the possibility of creating cinematic...

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...

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

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...

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

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

I walk on the rim of the abyss, and I tremble. Two voices contend within me. The mind: “Why waste ourselves by pursuing the impossible? Within...

One does not learn the art of Blind Fiilmmaking, one lives and experiences it, for no science will give you the key to the mysteries of the soul. One...

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...

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

What makes "Techno: Space and Flow in the Radical Frame" such an exceptional documentary is the manner in which the interviews are woven into a 50...

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...

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

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

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...

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