{"id":561,"date":"2009-03-01T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T14:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2009\/03\/02\/the-seeing-double-review-gazwrx-the-films-of-jeff-keen\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:19:23","slug":"the-seeing-double-review-gazwrx-the-films-of-jeff-keen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2009\/03\/01\/the-seeing-double-review-gazwrx-the-films-of-jeff-keen\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Take: GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nGAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen (Marvo Movie)<\/a><\/p>\n

\nFormat:<\/B> DVD + Blu-ray

\nRelease date:<\/B> 23 February 2009

\nDistributor:<\/B> BFI

\nDirector:<\/B> Jeff Keen

\nUK 1960-1990s

\n570 mins

\nWebsite<\/A>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe BFI has just released a DVD collection of short films by experimental British filmmaker Jeff Keen. To review a selection of these films, Alex Fitch is joined by Tania Glyde and (belatedly) Kim Morgan, former presenters of Midnight Sex Talk, a frank programme on all aspects of sexuality that ran for two years on Resonance FM. Tania also worked as the agony aunt for Time Out<\/I> and has written three books; the most recent, Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived<\/I>, has just been published in paperback by Serpent’s Tail.<\/p>\n

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Marvo Movie (16mm, 5 mins, 1967)<\/p>\n

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Alex Fitch:<\/B> I did like the Ken Russell quote that’s connected with it: ‘It went right over my head and seemed a little threatening, but I’m all for it’…<\/p>\n

Tania Glyde:<\/B> The sibilant voices and all that hissing did seem threatening! There was an anti-American feel with the horrible Mickey Mouse faces and make-up.<\/p>\n

AF:<\/B> It was as much an assault on the senses visually as sonically – a cacophony.\n<\/p>\n

Rayday Film (16mm, 13 mins, 1969)<\/B><\/p>\n

TG:<\/B> There were some funny bits in this one, especially the part where ‘Back to 1942!’ appeared on screen – it seems that Keen’s drawing from his own life, from his experience in the war. <\/p>\n

AF:<\/B> There are reoccurring themes in his films: the melting dolls, starting fires on electric hobs, comic book references… Thinking of comic book lettering on screen, there was the Batman<\/I> TV series in the 1960s, but no one’s ever really done that in film until very recently. I like the fact that he’s putting comic book sound effects and speech bubbles on screen. <\/p>\n

TG:<\/B> There was more sexual imagery and depictions of women’s bodies but it wasn’t heavy on the nudity. The animation was very Terry Gilliam. It looked like he was having a lot of fun with this, but at the same time acting out quite dark themes. Keen was in his mid-40s when he made that film – surrounded by all these young people just discovering drugs and sex in the 60s. I wonder if he was maybe envious of them not having known the war…<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the dialogue in the new print issue of Electric Sheep<\/A>. Our spring issue focuses on Tainted Love<\/B> to celebrate the release of the sweet and bloody pre-teen vampire romance Let the Right One In<\/I>, with articles on incestuous cinematic siblings, Franí\u00a7ois Ozon<\/B>‘s tales of tortuous relationships, destructive passion in Nic Roeg<\/B>‘s Bad Timing<\/I>, Julio Medem<\/B>‘s ambiguous lovers and nihilistic tenderness from Kôji Wakamatsu<\/B>. Also in this issue: Interview with Pascal Laugier<\/B> (Martyrs<\/B><\/I>), Berlin squat cinema, the Polish New Wave that never existed and comic strip on the Watchmen<\/B><\/I> film adaptation + much more!<\/p>\n

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