Comments on: Gazwrx: The films of Jeff Keen

By: Jeff Keen – Instant Cinema | APEngine

Jeff Keen – Instant Cinema | APEngine — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:40:36 +0000

[...] is only this year that Jeff’s work has become available on DVD. The BFI have released a nine hour overview of his work. He has been making short films, drawings, poetry and books [...]

By: mistertrippy

mistertrippy — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:20:54 +0000

Sorry Cliff, I have no leads on Region 1 Keen. Maybe you should go to his website and use the email to send an enquiry. Obviously you can’t watch PAL on an NTSC systerm, but you should be able to watch the BFI disks on a region free DVD player with a projector or else on a computer with DVD playing software.

By: Cliff Burns

Cliff Burns — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:23:00 +0000

GREAT piece on Keen–have to confess, I’m a late arrival to this particular bandwagon. Only came across the man’s work thanks to a recent piece in SIGHT & SOUND. Unfortunate, seems to be damn little of Mr. Keen’s stuff available in North America and certainly nothing like the ambitious BFI box set released in the U.K. in February. So far, I’ve had to settle for YouTube snippets and scanning sites like this one for all I can learn about this singular artist. Anyone know of any Region 1 (North America) compilations, even on VHS? Do tell…

By: Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan Performance Art On Video « Mister Trippy

Fri, 08 May 2009 10:22:52 +0000

[...] dialectic at work here, the setting and surreality of the image also reminded me of those Jeff Keen movies (particularly White Dust, 1972) set in the Whitehawk landfill dump on the edge of Brighton [...]

By: Sean Kaye-Smith

Sean Kaye-Smith — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:59:51 +0000

I’ve just seen a programme of Jeff Keen’s films at the Arnolfini in Bristol, and you’re right, the BFI have excelled themselves with this restoration/reissue. And they’re soon to do it again; they are currently remastering the work of Jane Arden (1927-82), in particular the three experimental features she made with Jack Bond: ‘Separation’ (1967), ‘The Otherside of the Underneath’ (1972) and ‘Anti-Clock’ (1979). They are all due for DVD and blue ray release Summer 2009. The Keen and Arden projects show the BFI at their best: preserving and promoting the interesting, off-beat corners of British film. Let’s hope there’s more to come.

By: Díre McCain

Díre McCain — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:37:48 +0000

But this may be the most beautiful scene…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hLk11K9OPI

By: Dave Kelso-Mitchell

Dave Kelso-Mitchell — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:04:30 +0000

Yes Flynt is a groovy fucker.

Surprised to find there is no Keen on Ubuweb, but there’s loads on Youtube, including this little gem;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfpYkaKRYtA

And Dire turned me on to this last night (totally not connected, but it’s too beautiful not to share)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67LaM95pBMM

By: mistertrippy

mistertrippy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:57:51 +0000

If you really loved me you’d go down on me… And don’t forget it isn’t just Angus MacLise on the “Thunderbolt Pagoda” soundtrack, you’ve got the likes of Henry Flynt in the improv ensemble playing on it too!

By: Ronnie Rude

Ronnie Rude — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:28:37 +0000

I’ve always loved ‘Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’! especially the soundtrack by Angus MacLise which is a lost gem of sub-psychedelic experimentation. And now I need to check out Jeff Keen. So thank you for posting this review you whingeing bloody pommie commie pooftah!!

(I mean that as a term of affection of course)

By: Media Blasters

Media Blasters — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:48:42 +0000

Since you like Jeff Keen you should check out our Shriek Show label that specializes in obscure horror and exploitation films such as “Ultimo mondo cannibale”, “La notte del terrore” and “Zombi 2″. We have been criticized for subpar DVD transfers, poor customer service and hard-matting films in the wrong aspect ratio for the sole purpose of anamorphically calibrating the films to wide-screen televisions, but we have also been praised just as much for the amount of effort we put into tracking down as many supplemental materials as possible for even the rarest films, including interviews with the filmmakers and photo galleries.