Aryan Kaganof
Aryan Kaganof is a South African film maker, novelist, poet and fine artist.
Nicola's First Orgasm (2003)
“We cannot abstain from watching the revelation of a being that would be an object neither for herself nor for any other gaze and yet which would effect, in the mystery of her own invisibility, the condensation of all objectivity.” Aryan Kaganof plays with the ... (more)
“We cannot abstain from watching the revelation of a being that would be an object neither for herself nor for any other gaze and yet which would effect, in the mystery of her own invisibility, the condensation of all objectivity.” Aryan Kaganof plays with the ... (more)
Pale Blue Eyes (2002)
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 director moved back to South Africa. Kaganof merely projected the old 1992 16mm footage onto a screen and recorded ... (more)
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 director moved back to South Africa. Kaganof merely projected the old 1992 16mm footage onto a screen and recorded ... (more)
Primal Scene (2002)
PRIMAL SCENE: in Freudian analysis the traumatic moment when the child sees its parents engaged in sexual intercourse for the first time. Short film by Aryan Kaganof. (more)
PRIMAL SCENE: in Freudian analysis the traumatic moment when the child sees its parents engaged in sexual intercourse for the first time. Short film by Aryan Kaganof. (more)
The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ (2001)
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 unified manner in what used to be art in the most general sense. In the case of knowledge, the accumulation of branches of ... (more)
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 unified manner in what used to be art in the most general sense. In the case of knowledge, the accumulation of branches of ... (more)
Venus in Furs (2001)
While still living in Amsterdam under his birth name 'Ian Kerkhof,' Aryan Kaganof co-penned the script for his friends Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth's debut feature Venus in Furs (1995), which is undoubtedly the most faithful cinematic adaptation of the ... (more)
While still living in Amsterdam under his birth name 'Ian Kerkhof,' Aryan Kaganof co-penned the script for his friends Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth's debut feature Venus in Furs (1995), which is undoubtedly the most faithful cinematic adaptation of the ... (more)
Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix (2000)
In 2000, Kaganof collaborated with four other filmmakers on the cinematic manifesto Sonic Fragments - The Poetics of Digital Fragmentation (2000). Later, Kaganof would re-edit his segment and release it as the 'remix manifesto' Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix ... (more)
In 2000, Kaganof collaborated with four other filmmakers on the cinematic manifesto Sonic Fragments - The Poetics of Digital Fragmentation (2000). Later, Kaganof would re-edit his segment and release it as the 'remix manifesto' Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix ... (more)
The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax (1990)
1990 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
1990 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
Crash (1990)
1990 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
1990 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
Stations of the Cross (1990)
1990 short experimental film by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
1990 short experimental film by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
Requiem (1991)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
Carnage in the Charnel House (1991)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
Bloodbath (1991)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
Egmond Ghost Poem (1991)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
The Solipsist (1991)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof (more)
The Sequence of Parallel Bars (1992)
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 dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men, who proceed to chain her up and worship her body. Originally projected ... (more)
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 dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men, who proceed to chain her up and worship her body. Originally projected ... (more)
Kyodai Makes the Big Time (1992)
"Love is the only thing subject to negotiation in feature film debut which betrays admiration for the formal rigidity of Straub and Zwartjes." "The film, KYODAI MAKES THE BIG TIME, caused a commotion in the Netherlands when it won the Golden Calf for Best Film ... (more)
"Love is the only thing subject to negotiation in feature film debut which betrays admiration for the formal rigidity of Straub and Zwartjes." "The film, KYODAI MAKES THE BIG TIME, caused a commotion in the Netherlands when it won the Golden Calf for Best Film ... (more)
The Creepy Pegman and The Upsidedown Woman (1993)
Short film in which a group of children get to know the Enge Knijperman (the Grisly Pincher Man) who falls madly in love with the Onderstebovenvrouw (Upside-down Woman). However the 220-Volt-Witch and the Toilet Slave set out to spoil things. Experimental short by ... (more)
Short film in which a group of children get to know the Enge Knijperman (the Grisly Pincher Man) who falls madly in love with the Onderstebovenvrouw (Upside-down Woman). However the 220-Volt-Witch and the Toilet Slave set out to spoil things. Experimental short by ... (more)
The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man (1994)
The Dead Man returns, but it's too late to save us. We are already dead. (more)
The Dead Man returns, but it's too late to save us. We are already dead. (more)
Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers (1994)
Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title: ten monologues adapted from various fiction and documentary sources which ... (more)
Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title: ten monologues adapted from various fiction and documentary sources which ... (more)
Matthew Barney: Creating Stories (1995)
Filmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior (1998)." (more)
Filmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior (1998)." (more)