Jeff Keen Movies

  • 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
  • 1986
    Blatzom

    Blatzom

    Blatzom

    81986HD

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

    Blatzom
  • 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
  • 1990
    Pulverised Cinema

    Pulverised Cinema

    Pulverised Cinema

    81990HD

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

    Pulverised Cinema
  • 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
  • 1960
    Wail

    Wail

    Wail

    91960HD

    Experimental short featuring motorbikes and animation. This is the second version of Jeff Keen's first film; that film became too worn.

    Wail
  • 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
  • 1990
    Blazomatika

    Blazomatika

    Blazomatika

    81990HD

    Produced by Jeff Keen for looping in an exhibition context.

    Blazomatika
  • 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
  • 1993
    Artwar: The Last Frontier

    Artwar: The Last Frontier

    Artwar: The Last Frontier

    81993HD

    For this video, Jeff Keen had all his images for the Artwar series run together and over the top of each other.

    Artwar: The Last Frontier
  • 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
  • 1972
    Stolen Moments

    Stolen Moments

    Stolen Moments

    81972HD

    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...

    Stolen Moments
  • 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
  • 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
    Return of Silver Head

    Return of Silver Head

    Return of Silver Head

    91980HD

    The Keen family go on holiday in the jungles of the English countryside while the mysterious Silver Head - Jeff Keen wearing an inside-out,...

    Return of Silver Head
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2000
    Art Flies Free

    Art Flies Free

    Art Flies Free

    02000HD

    A Super-8 portrait of Jeff Keen. This short but evocative experimental portrait melds Keen's style with that of its maker, Ian Helliwell, another...

    Art Flies Free
  • 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
  • 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)