Movies: Jeff Keen

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

This relatively unknown Jeff Keen film presents an insistent series of exquisitely composed action and animation sequences and must be one of the only 8mm 'cinemascope' films in the world...

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

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 artist filmmaker based in Brighton. The title comes from an adage of Jeff Keen's and features Keen readi...

From spinning paper guns to pulsing television screens, from zooms, crosscutting and painted film surfaces to burning paper, Jeff Keen uses all the effects at his disposal to make a series of extraordinary animations where movement is never allowed t...

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 plastic Hitler mask from Brighton pier and created this red and blue-dominated film that runs at a distinc...

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 Pontiac Continental....

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 a shortwave radio....

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

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

This compilation work uses Keen's drawing computer, screams and gunfire and proclaims ' enemy territory is outside the frame. Includes the titles 'Albino Ray', 'Grafico Blatz', 'Eye Blaze' and 'Grafico Blatz 2'....

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

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 means to inspire audience identification, but rather to make up for an imbalance....