Embedded above is the full short film Marvo Movie by British experimental filmmaker Jeff Keen. It was made back in 1967 with support from BFI and is a brilliant work of art from that very fertile underground filmmaking period. However, as a British filmmaker, Keen is regularly left out of traditional avant-garde film histories, even though his work is on par with the best of his era. Marvo Movie is brilliantly disturbing and unsettling with a slight touch of the sentimental.
Keen is now in his late ’80s and severely ill with cancer. To pile on that troublesome news, Keen and his wife were also recently evicted from their home. In addition to the emotional and personal turmoil that has put the Keens through, it has also left the state of his artistic archives in jeopardy.
News of the Keens’ dire situation first surfaced in an article by another British filmmaker...
Keen is now in his late ’80s and severely ill with cancer. To pile on that troublesome news, Keen and his wife were also recently evicted from their home. In addition to the emotional and personal turmoil that has put the Keens through, it has also left the state of his artistic archives in jeopardy.
News of the Keens’ dire situation first surfaced in an article by another British filmmaker...
- 5/14/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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