Gabrielle Provaas

Plastic Harem

Gabrielle Provaas, Rob Schröder

A documentary about the intersecting worlds of art, pop-culture, sex, and business in the Middle East after the Egyptian revolution. It follows Dutch-Egyptian conceptual artist Tarik Sadouma and Jordanian pop singer Malak al-Naser as they travel to Cairo, Beirut and Dubai.

Ouwehoeren

Gabrielle Provaas, Rob Schröder

Louise Fokkens, Martine Fokkens

Sisters doing it for themselves in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam's Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. The Ladies Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.

La séquence des barres parallèles

Aryan Kaganof

Theo van Gogh, Jan Willem Winter

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 on three screens simultaneously. Music by legendary noise musician Merzbow.

The Mozart Bird

Aryan Kaganof

Daniel Daran, Stacey Grace

Howard and Selene are two English-speaking foreigners living in Amsterdam who begin a casual affair that turns serious and then starts to deteriorate. It is the second part in Aryan Kaganof's Urban Wasteland Serial.

Venus in Furs

Aryan Kaganof

Theo van Gogh, Gabrielle Provaas

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 S&M-themed Leopold von Sacher-Masoch novella of the same name. A number of years later after moving back to his homeland of South Africa, Kaganof directed his own tribute to Sacher-Masoch's classic work.

De Enge Knijperman en de Ondersteboven Vrouw

Aryan Kaganof

Aryan Kaganof, Philippa Collin

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 Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name Ian Kerkhof.