What’s Your Story? – Aryan Kaganof from one small seed on Vimeo.

An explorer of all things creative, Aryan Kaganof (Born Ian Kerkhof) possesses a rare tenacity for raw experimentation. Working in a highly varied range of media (text, fine art, music and film), Aryan is a visual being with a macabre insight into the human psyche. A definitive leader in the digital revolution in cinema, he was the first filmmaker across the globe to produce a digital feature film on video up to 35 mm with his release of naar de klote / wasted in 1996. Three years later, he took this process to Japan to produce the first-ever Japanese digital feature, entitled Shabondama Elegy aka Tokyo Elegy. Aryan is also famed for making the world’s first mobile feature film sms sugar man in 2007.

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Recently he has produced the highly controversial The Uprising in Hangberg; a documentary that presents substantial evidence that metro police used unprovoked force when arriving in Hangberg on 21 September 2010 to tear down informal houses built on a fire break. At times suspended naked, blood smeared and silhouetted by hostile global images, Aryan Kaganof’s work reminds us of the fragility of humankind. A subjective voyeur, he’s prolific. And he’s watching YOU.

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Footage courtesy: ‘THE DEAD MAN2: return of the deadman’ distributed by CJC
‘SMS Sugarman’

Distributed by SMS music

Footage courtesy:‘Tokyo Elegy’ distributed by uplink
‘uprising of hangberg’

Music: ‘delirium cordia’- fantomas
‘sick zip everywhere’- melt banana