christina kennedy on “by any old light”
Kaganof, the enfant terrible of the SA film scene and one of the country’s most original and audacious artistic voices, is back – this time in front of the camera – in By Any Old Light.
This doccie, directed by Ca Ca Ca (yes, really) and Dionysos Andronis is a montage of film clips, interview snippets, performance excerpts and conversations between Peter Whitehead, “the father of independent filmmaking”, and Kaganof.
British director Whitehead is best remembered for his revolutionary 1969 indie film The Fall, but has also filmed the likes of Mick Jagger, Syd Barrett and Allen Ginsberg.
Switching styles
The style of avant-garde, postmodern “guerrilla” filmmaking evident in By Any Old Light will not be to everyone’s tastes but there are certainly some interesting propositions to chew on, such as the controversial notion of terrorism as “one of the fine arts”, when protest is nudged beyond anarchy to be an effective method to fight violation and abuse.
this review first appeared on cue, july 2009
December 11th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
The third festival playing tonight our film is “alternative film festival” in Belgrade (Serbia) :
www.alternativefilmvideo.org/program2009en.pdf