Cine Blatz, Meatdaze, Kino Stacatto, Pulverised Cinema. These are just a few of the mysterious titles from the sprawling filmography of Jeff Keen, the Brighton-based experimental filmmaker and artist, whose career spanned from the late 1950s to his death in 2012.
In Jeff’s films friends and family adopt star personas yanked from Hollywood B-movies, creation and destruction intermingle and, typically, everything moves at a breakneck pace. This podcast explores Jeff’s life and work in film and beyond, including his experiences in the Second World War; his involvement in the swinging scene surrounding Better Books in the 1960s; his love of Hollywood; and his collaboration with his wife, Jackie.
Chapters
* 00:01:13 - Intro to Stella Keen and John Marchant
* 00:05:25 - Jeff’s life before filmmaking
* 00:07:49 - Brighton and first experiments with film
* 00:10:00 - Better Books
* 00:13:17 - London Filmmakers Co-op
* 00:16:46 - War in Jeff’s films
* 00:20:37 - Jeff’s love of film, and film references in his work
* 00:23:53 - Jeff’s wife, Jackie, and their creative collaboration
* 00:30:40 - Jeff’s work outside of film
* 00:34:22 - maintaining the archive
* 00:39:16 - Jeff’s legacy
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* I will no longer be uploading podcasts to Spotify and have removed all previous episodes of the podcast from that platform. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for ages, because Spotify is a transparently evil company that delights in ripping off musicians, promoting AI slop, and enabling genocide in Palestine.
This podcast includes contributions from Stella Keen, Jeff’s daughter, and gallerist John Marchant, who recently hosted a show of Jeff’s work at his Brighton gallery.
You can email me at atthecineclub@gmail.com.
Show notes
Links to some of Jeff’s films:
Marvo Movie(1967)
Cineblatz (1967)
White Lite(1968)
Rayday Film(1968-76)
Jeff Keen Films(Channel 4 documentary on Jeff, 1983)
Other links
* Gazwrx, BFI box set of Jeff’s films
