Aryan Kaganof Movies

  • 1991
    Carnage in the Charnel House

    Carnage in the Charnel House

    Carnage in the Charnel House

    01991HD

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

    Carnage in the Charnel House
  • 1992
    The Sequence of Parallel Bars

    The Sequence of Parallel Bars

    The Sequence of Parallel Bars

    21992HD

    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...

    The Sequence of Parallel Bars
  • 1996
    MINNAMANNA

    MINNAMANNA

    MINNAMANNA

    01996HD

    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...

    MINNAMANNA
  • 1998
    Signal to Noise

    Signal to Noise

    Signal to Noise

    01998HD

    Short documentary on Japanese noise artist Merzbow by South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. Filmed on location at the Kamakura Temple, Japan, 1997.

    Signal to Noise
  • 2002
    Pale Blue Eyes

    Pale Blue Eyes

    Pale Blue Eyes

    02002HD

    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...

    Pale Blue Eyes
  • 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

    02004HD

    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
  • 1990
    The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax

    The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax

    The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax

    01990HD

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

    The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to Climax
  • 2008
    SMS Sugar Man

    SMS Sugar Man

    SMS Sugar Man

    02008HD

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

    SMS Sugar Man
  • 1991
    Egmond Ghost Poem

    Egmond Ghost Poem

    Egmond Ghost Poem

    01991HD

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

    Egmond Ghost Poem
  • 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

    02005HD

    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
  • 2004
    Self-Portrait With Nanny

    Self-Portrait With Nanny

    Self-Portrait With Nanny

    02004HD

    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...

    Self-Portrait With Nanny
  • 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!

    21995HD

    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!
  • 1990
    Crash

    Crash

    Crash

    01990HD

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

    Crash
  • 2011
    A Leisure Society of Severe Preponderence

    A Leisure Society of Severe Preponderence

    A Leisure Society of Severe Preponderence

    02011HD

    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
  • 2007
    The Third Aktion

    The Third Aktion

    The Third Aktion

    02007HD

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

    The Third Aktion
  • 2013
    An Inconsolable Memory

    An Inconsolable Memory

    An Inconsolable Memory

    02013HD

    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
  • 1993
    The Mozart Bird

    The Mozart Bird

    The Mozart Bird

    21993HD

    Howard and Selene are two English-speaking foreigners living in Amsterdam who begin a casual affair that turns serious and then starts to...

    The Mozart Bird
  • 2004
    The Murder Mystery

    The Murder Mystery

    The Murder Mystery

    02004HD

    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...

    The Murder Mystery
  • 1991
    Bloodbath

    Bloodbath

    Bloodbath

    01991HD

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

    Bloodbath
  • 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