Worm Live: Jeff Keen + Peter Rehberg aka Pita

Born in 1923 and a soldier in WW II, Jeff Keen began making films at the age of 37 – prompted by a deficit of screenings at the local film society. And so began over forty years of unique, imaginative, irrepressible film making that’s outlived the scenes in which it thrived: the sixties counter-culture, punk and beyond. Featuring a massive range of animated cut-outs and painting and populated by friends and family in a variety of guises, including The Cat Woman, Silverhead, Babyjelly and many more, these frenetic films reveal Keen’s genuine LOVE of comics, B movies and pulp novels while also making darker references to war.
Progressing through various film stocks, though always preferring 8mm – more oppositional, more disposable, less of a sellout – this self-taught artist and pioneer of independent film impresses his highly individual stamp upon all his work.
Peter Rehberg (1968, London) aka Pita is an author and performer of electronic audio works and one of the first to turn to mobile computing devices for live audio performances. David Keenan wrote that ‘Get Out, recorded by Peter Rehberg aka Pita and originally released by Mego in 1999, stands as the first major musical laptop statement in the same way that Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced album spoke for the most extended instrument-speci?c modes of the electric guitar three decades earlier.’

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