Aryan Kaganof Movies

  • 2008
    SMS Sugar Man

    SMS Sugar Man

    SMS Sugar Man

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    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
  • 2004
    Reich Dance Redemption

    Reich Dance Redemption

    Reich Dance Redemption

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

    Reich Dance Redemption
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2004
    “Nique ta mère!”

    “Nique ta mère!”

    “Nique ta mère!”

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    “Nique ta mère!” (2004) is a 'Radikal-Re:Mix' of Kaganof's own Georges Bataille adaptation The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man...

    “Nique ta mère!”
  • 2007
    The Third Aktion

    The Third Aktion

    The Third Aktion

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    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
  • 2007
    Suprematist composition #36:

    Suprematist composition #36:

    Suprematist composition #36:

    02007HD

    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...

    Suprematist composition #36:
  • 2010
    Die Ander Rebellie

    Die Ander Rebellie

    Die Ander Rebellie

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    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
  • 2003
    DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII

    DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII

    DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII

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    (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...

    DIABELLI VARIATION XXXIII
  • 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