Jeff Keen Movies

  • 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
  • 1961
    Like the Time Is Now

    Like the Time Is Now

    Like the Time Is Now

    91961HD

    America comes to Brighton as three beatniks hang out, listen to records and smoke before strange hats appear out of nowhere and a cartoon bubble...

    Like the Time Is Now
  • 1978
    Mad Love

    Mad Love

    Mad Love

    101978HD

    Jeff Keen had a chance encounter with a collection of old 78 speed records at a Brighton flea market and used it as an opportunity to create a...

    Mad Love
  • 1968
    Meatdaze

    Meatdaze

    Meatdaze

    91968HD

    Made to represent an entire cinema programme, Meatdaze consists of six sections that include cartoons, supporting and main features.

    Meatdaze
  • 1975
    24 Films

    24 Films

    24 Films

    91975HD

    Made between 1970 and 1975, Jeff Keen's films always contain internal layers and films within films. The twenty-four films here include hand-painted...

    24 Films
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1991
    Plazmatic Blatz

    Plazmatic Blatz

    Plazmatic Blatz

    81991HD

    Stealth bombers hover over crashing waves and ruined land. Using found footage and several thick layers of video, Jeff Keen presents and visceral...

    Plazmatic Blatz
  • 1975
    Lone Star

    Lone Star

    Lone Star

    81975HD

    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...

    Lone Star
  • 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
  • 1990
    B-B-B Bom and Life Storm

    B-B-B Bom and Life Storm

    B-B-B Bom and Life Storm

    8.81990HD

    From spinning paper guns to pulsing television screens, from zooms, crosscutting and painted film surfaces to burning paper, Jeff Keen uses all the...

    B-B-B Bom and Life Storm
  • 1984
    The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke

    The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke

    The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke

    91984HD

    Jeff Keen's daughter gave him some music and sound effects recorded at the cinema and invited him to use it as the basis for a film. He added a...

    The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke
  • 1969
    Family Star (The Mutt & Jeff Icecream Sundae + Mothman)

    Family Star (The Mutt & Jeff Icecream Sundae + Mothman)

    Family Star (The Mutt & Jeff Icecream Sundae + Mothman)

    91969HD

    Various different holiday locations ar joined together through the pleasures of ice cream in The Mutt & Jeff Icecream Sundae, while in Mothman the...

    Family Star (The Mutt & Jeff Icecream Sundae + Mothman)
  • 1990
    Artwar Loop 1

    Artwar Loop 1

    Artwar Loop 1

    91990HD

    The Artwar loops were made for non-cinematic exhibition and go from harsh film surface noise to colour bars and other video effects filmed from the...

    Artwar Loop 1
  • 1990
    Blazomatika

    Blazomatika

    Blazomatika

    81990HD

    Produced by Jeff Keen for looping in an exhibition context.

    Blazomatika
  • 1993
    Kino Pulveriso

    Kino Pulveriso

    Kino Pulveriso

    91993HD

    The Artwar face peers through painted celluloid and a barrage of explosions and film noise.

    Kino Pulveriso
  • 1990
    Artwar Loop 2

    Artwar Loop 2

    Artwar Loop 2

    91990HD

    The Artwar loops were made for non-cinematic exhibition and go from harsh film surface noise to colour bars and other video effects filmed from the...

    Artwar Loop 2
  • 1972
    White Dust

    White Dust

    White Dust

    101972HD

    Named after the horror film White Zombie and the rom-com Red Dust (both 1932), White Dust follows the friends and family of Keen while they explore...

    White Dust
  • 1990
    Blazon Blatzom: El Pistolera Blatzo

    Blazon Blatzom: El Pistolera Blatzo

    Blazon Blatzom: El Pistolera Blatzo

    81990HD

    A documentation of Jeff Keen painting, using montage to turn a mild-mannered English painter into a Wild West gunslinger.

    Blazon Blatzom: El Pistolera Blatzo