Jeff Keen Movies

  • 1965
    The Games and Diversions of Dr. Gaz

    The Games and Diversions of Dr. Gaz

    The Games and Diversions of Dr. Gaz

    01965HD

    Silent 8mm film.

    The Games and Diversions of Dr. Gaz
  • 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
  • 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
    Flik Flak

    Flik Flak

    Flik Flak

    91965HD

    Comics, monsters and a zombified Keen are gently desecrated in this paint-flecked film that also features a picture of Jackie Keen crying...

    Flik Flak
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1994
    Artwar

    Artwar

    Artwar

    81994HD

    This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.

    Artwar
  • 1990
    Pulverised Cinema

    Pulverised Cinema

    Pulverised Cinema

    81990HD

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

    Pulverised 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
  • 2006
    Eyeblaze

    Eyeblaze

    Eyeblaze

    02006HD

    Experimental animation created using a video pen.

    Eyeblaze
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1986
    Blatzom

    Blatzom

    Blatzom

    81986HD

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

    Blatzom
  • 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
  • 1995
    Artwar Fallout + Artwar 3

    Artwar Fallout + Artwar 3

    Artwar Fallout + Artwar 3

    8.21995HD

    Footage of the first Iraq War is jarringly intercut with shots of the artist painting at the local tip and at home. Drawing upon pivotal moments in...

    Artwar Fallout + Artwar 3
  • 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
  • 1990
    Blazomatika

    Blazomatika

    Blazomatika

    81990HD

    Produced by Jeff Keen for looping in an exhibition context.

    Blazomatika