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

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...

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...

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

Oedipus and Punishment (2005) is an adaptation of a pre-existent sketch in Aryan Kaganof's early masterpiece Ten Monologues from the Lives of the...

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

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

(South Africa, 17 July 2003, 5min, DV) This short film is a collaboration of Aryan Kaganof and Nicola Deane (director of photography) and part of...

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

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 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...

Society Of The Spectacle (2013) is basically a remix of Kaganof's Guy Debord tribute Click Here to Unsubscribe (2008), albeit at about ten times the...

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

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

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...

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

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...