Jeff Keen Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1990
    Blatzom in Artwar

    Blatzom in Artwar

    Blatzom in Artwar

    81990HD

    This vibrant montage of colours and positive and negative images shows Jeff Keen filtering and reflecting on his previous films.

    Blatzom in Artwar
  • 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
  • 1995
    Omozap in Artwar

    Omozap in Artwar

    Omozap in Artwar

    81995HD

    This compilation work uses Keen's drawing computer, screams and gunfire and proclaims ' enemy territory is outside the frame. Includes the titles...

    Omozap in Artwar
  • 1975
    Rosa Canina

    Rosa Canina

    Rosa Canina

    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...

    Rosa Canina
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1969
    Day of the Arcane Light

    Day of the Arcane Light

    Day of the Arcane Light

    9.31969HD

    Experimental short directed by Jeff Keen.

    Day of the Arcane Light
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1964
    The Pink Auto

    The Pink Auto

    The Pink Auto

    91964HD

    The Pink Auto, screened using two projectors, is one of the very first examples of expanded cinema. Jeff Keen walks as a zombie and carry his dead...

    The Pink Auto
  • 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
    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