Jeff Keen Movies

  • 1979
    The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz

    The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz

    The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz

    91979HD

    Action and animation are pushed to the extreme in this frenetic film. Keen makes references to the God-like status of the director, the framed world...

    The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz
  • 1989
    Spontaneous Combustion

    Spontaneous Combustion

    Spontaneous Combustion

    91989HD

    This relatively unknown Jeff Keen film presents an insistent series of exquisitely composed action and animation sequences and must be one of the...

    Spontaneous Combustion
  • 1967
    Marvo Movie

    Marvo Movie

    Marvo Movie

    81967HD

    Four minutes of heavily cut-up sound and vision with collage, animation and multiple exposures throughout.

    Marvo Movie
  • 1961
    The Autumn Feast

    The Autumn Feast

    The Autumn Feast

    6.41961HD

    A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact...

    The Autumn Feast
  • 1986
    Blatzom

    Blatzom

    Blatzom

    81986HD

    Jeff Keen dons paper masks and his knitted Artwar jacket, after avoiding bombs and pacing a moonlike landscape.

    Blatzom
  • 1976
    Godzilla: Last of the Creatures

    Godzilla: Last of the Creatures

    Godzilla: Last of the Creatures

    91976HD

    One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera...

    Godzilla: Last of the Creatures
  • 1968
    White Lite

    White Lite

    White Lite

    8.31968HD

    White Lite is something of a mystical film, evoking the feeling of going 'through the looking glass' to another world, despite the fact it was...

    White Lite
  • 2000
    Joy Thru Film

    Joy Thru Film

    Joy Thru Film

    8.52000HD

    Jeff Keen's final film pushes his conflation of personal history and war even further than before.

    Joy Thru Film
  • 1980
    Victory Thru Film Power

    Victory Thru Film Power

    Victory Thru Film Power

    91980HD

    A short, sharp, visceral attack on the news using, amongst other things, science fiction footage and scattered newspaper headlines.

    Victory Thru Film Power
  • 1967
    Cineblatz

    Cineblatz

    Cineblatz

    91967HD

    In Cineblatz, the viewer is subjected to a high-impact barrage of evolving images, at once comic and terrifying. Glossy magazines are cut up and...

    Cineblatz
  • 1990
    Pulverised Cinema

    Pulverised Cinema

    Pulverised Cinema

    81990HD

    Jeff Keen processes his cinematic past in this filmic attack on his back catalogue.

    Pulverised Cinema
  • 1965
    Missing Close-ups

    Missing Close-ups

    Missing Close-ups

    91965HD

    Jeff Keen thought that some of his previous films had been dominated by long-shots. In this film he grapples with the language of cinema, not as a...

    Missing Close-ups
  • 1999
    Kino Staccato

    Kino Staccato

    Kino Staccato

    81999HD

    This bright animation cuts from interiors to exteriors and pushes pictures of Keen at different ages up against violent actions and symbols of...

    Kino Staccato
  • 1991
    Omozap

    Omozap

    Omozap

    91991HD

    Omozap is a gun-wielding wildman and Keen anti-superhero akin to The Punisher. Compulsive animation and action look to the Artwar films and videos to...

    Omozap
  • 1962
    Breakout

    Breakout

    Breakout

    8.51962HD

    Breakout is an unfinished film and, unusually for Keen, contains a loose narrative. It presents the story of a young man hounded by a large pink...

    Breakout
  • 1990
    Plasticator

    Plasticator

    Plasticator

    81990HD

    Treating apocalyptic and aggressive imagery with silence and slow washes of colour, Jeff Keen exhibits and works against his usual tropes.

    Plasticator
  • 1991
    Omozap 2

    Omozap 2

    Omozap 2

    7.51991HD

    Omozap is a gun-wielding wildman and Keen anti-superhero akin to The Punisher. Compulsive animation and action look to the Artwar films and videos to...

    Omozap 2
  • 1965
    Instant Cinema

    Instant Cinema

    Instant Cinema

    9.31965HD

    This early quick-fire cut-up animation melds machine gunfire with scratched film. The soundtrack was made by Keen in 2007 with a wasp synthesizer and...

    Instant Cinema
  • 1969
    Day of the Arcane Light

    Day of the Arcane Light

    Day of the Arcane Light

    91969HD

    Experimental short directed by Jeff Keen.

    Day of the Arcane Light
  • 2002
    Afterblatz 2

    Afterblatz 2

    Afterblatz 2

    82002HD

    'Afterblatz 2' was shot on video and screened alongside 'Omozap Terribelis'. It uses the toy 'My First Sony' to present a number of...

    Afterblatz 2