Aryan Kaganof
2021
Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers
Aryan Kaganof
Rodney Beddal, Mark Bellamy
Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title: ten monologues adapted from various fiction and documentary sources which combine to produce an unsettling work that does not pretend to analyse nor to understand the serial killers.
Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers
Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix
Aryan Kaganof
In 2000, Kaganof collaborated with four other filmmakers on the cinematic manifesto Sonic Fragments - The Poetics of Digital Fragmentation (2000). Later, Kaganof would re-edit his segment and release it as the 'remix manifesto' Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix. The original film was a tribute to its narrator Charles Manson. Unfortunately, Mr. Manson does not narrate the remix.
Sonic Fragments: The Radikal-Re:Mix
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 Sequence of Parallel Bars
Naar de klote!
Aryan Kaganof
Fem van der Elzen, Tygo Gernandt
Twentysomething innocents Jacqui and Martijn move to Amsterdam and immerse themselves in the intense and drug-laden underground club scene. Life turns out to be far more complicated, difficult, and dangerous than they bargained for. Their relationship is tested - repeatedly.
Wasted!
Kyodai Makes the Big Time
Aryan Kaganof
Koos Vos, Janica Draisma
"Love is the only thing subject to negotiation in feature film debut which betrays admiration for the formal rigidity of Straub and Zwartjes." "The film, KYODAI MAKES THE BIG TIME, caused a commotion in the Netherlands when it won the Golden Calf for Best Film (the Dutch Oscar equivalent). The film went on to win the Jozef Von Sternberg Prize For Innovative Narrative Structure at the Mannheim Film Festival." "KYODAI MAKES THE BIG TIME – What was the public’s reaction to this? Your first film – is it like your first time having sex? Which I guess is a subjective question, but I’m thinking experimental, unnerving, liberating, a learning experience, a humbling experience, leaving you wanting more ? SEX SHOULD ALWAYS BE LIKE YOU'RE HAVING SEX FOR THE FIRST TIME."
Kyodai Makes the Big Time
シャボン玉エレジー
Aryan Kaganof
Thom Hoffman, Mai Hoshino
This transnational production featuring a South African- born director, a Dutch leading man, and a Japanese cast and crew tells the story of a passionate love affair between a convict and a porn star, which is undone by greed and private ghosts. Escaping from the Japanese police, Jack meets Keiko, a money-hungry adult film actress and the younger sister of his ex-wife. He takes refuge in her flat and soon they fall in love. Jack is unable to leave her apartment because he quickly learns that both the police and the dreaded yakuza are after the criminal. He grows distraught and despondent, spending hour upon hour alone as Keiko works long hours on the set. At one point, Keiko visits the yakuza don who placed the hit on Jack and agrees to hand him over in exchange for a pile of cash. But she has one stipulation: that she get to spend three days with her soon-to-be deceased lover. The boss agrees only if she engages in kinky sex with him. The deal seems set until unforeseen events occur.
Tokyo Elegy
A funeral : a strategy of difference and repetition
Aryan Kaganof
Djeff Babcock, Andrea Spook
Philosophical road-movie about the deranged paedophile Friedrich Nietzsche and his murder obsessed self-mutilating sister Elisabeth. Publisher: [South Africa] : African Noise Foundation, [2012?] Edition/Format: DVD video : English Notes: Originally filmed in 1997-1991, edited in 2002. Credits: Editor, Thempeka Laduma, original music Ramon dos Santos. Cast: Djeff Babcock, Andrea Spook, Cassandra Aki. Description: 1 DVD (33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Details: DVD; Dolby digital. Responsibility: written and directed by Aryan Kaganof.
A funeral : a strategy of difference and repetition
Nicola's First Orgasm
Aryan Kaganof
Nicola Deane
“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 would effect, in the mystery of her own invisibility, the condensation of all objectivity.” Aryan Kaganof plays with the contradiction and relationship between the vulnerable, private realm and the voyeuristic, objectified domain in a film about a young woman's sexual initiation.
Nicola's First Orgasm
“Nique ta mère!”
Aryan Kaganof
“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 (1994) that incorporates new music and tons of new footage. The film was commissioned by the French industrial music outfit Tempsion. It premiered in Paris, March 2004, and was released as part of the RECTIFIER DVD/CD package in early 2005 on the Letrange Sonotheque label (MAL013).
“Nique ta mère!”