Aryan Kaganof Movies

  • 2013
    An Inconsolable Memory

    An Inconsolable Memory

    An Inconsolable Memory

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    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...

    An Inconsolable Memory
  • 2015
    The Promise of Water

    The Promise of Water

    The Promise of Water

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

    The Promise of Water
  • 2004
    Reich Dance Redemption

    Reich Dance Redemption

    Reich Dance Redemption

    02004HD

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

    Reich Dance Redemption
  • 2012
    Venom And Eternity For Dummies

    Venom And Eternity For Dummies

    Venom And Eternity For Dummies

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    Venom And Eternity For Dummies (2012) is a tribute to letterist poet Isidore Isou (On Venom and Eternity). The film utilizes excerpts from Kaganof's...

    Venom And Eternity For Dummies
  • 1995
    Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Rape Me!

    Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Rape Me!

    Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Rape Me!

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

    Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Rape Me!
  • 2013
    Society Of The Spectacle

    Society Of The Spectacle

    Society Of The Spectacle

    02013HD

    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...

    Society Of The Spectacle
  • 2011
    A Leisure Society of Severe Preponderence

    A Leisure Society of Severe Preponderence

    A Leisure Society of Severe Preponderence

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

    A Leisure Society of Severe Preponderence
  • 1970
    The Body Conquers The Invisible Territory of the Soul

    The Body Conquers The Invisible Territory of the Soul

    The Body Conquers The Invisible Territory of the Soul

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    There is nothing you can do about it. You are overwhelmed with images. They carry you away. they replace you, you are dreaming. The spectacle is life...

    The Body Conquers The Invisible Territory of the Soul
  • 1998
    Acèphale's First Recording / The Resurrection

    Acèphale's First Recording / The Resurrection

    Acèphale's First Recording / The Resurrection

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

    Acèphale's First Recording / The Resurrection
  • 2010
    Die Ander Rebellie

    Die Ander Rebellie

    Die Ander Rebellie

    02010HD

    The hour-long documentary, entitled Die Ander Rebellie, delves into aspects of the recent labour unrest mostly hidden from view in daily media...

    Die Ander Rebellie
  • 2004
    AT LAST I AM FREE

    AT LAST I AM FREE

    AT LAST I AM FREE

    02004HD

    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...

    AT LAST I AM FREE
  • 2014
    In Media Res

    In Media Res

    In Media Res

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

    In Media Res
  • 2004
    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

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

    Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
  • 2004
    A Sacrifice

    A Sacrifice

    A Sacrifice

    02004HD

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

    A Sacrifice
  • 2001
    Western 4.33

    Western 4.33

    Western 4.33

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    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...

    Western 4.33
  • 1990
    Crash

    Crash

    Crash

    01990HD

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

    Crash
  • 1991
    Carnage in the Charnel House

    Carnage in the Charnel House

    Carnage in the Charnel House

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

    Carnage in the Charnel House
  • 2003
    Nicola's First Orgasm

    Nicola's First Orgasm

    Nicola's First Orgasm

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    “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...

    Nicola's First Orgasm
  • 2007
    A Symbolic Exchange

    A Symbolic Exchange

    A Symbolic Exchange

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    “A man thinks when he touches a woman’s body it is only her body he is touching. It really is her soul, her brain, her creative...

    A Symbolic Exchange
  • 2005
    Oedipus and Punishment: An Interview with Edmund Emil Kemper

    Oedipus and Punishment: An Interview with Edmund Emil Kemper

    Oedipus and Punishment: An Interview with Edmund Emil Kemper

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    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...

    Oedipus and Punishment: An Interview with Edmund Emil Kemper