David Edward Keen

David Edward
Keen

Self-taught in filmmaking, David Edward Keen came via photography, and interestingly, via musical composition, fascinated by the similarity between musical composition and cinema.

Films

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    Purgatory Chasm
    Experimental
    Narrative

    Purgatory Chasm
    David Edward Keen

    Digital, color, sound, 2.08 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Psychology / Mental Health
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Music
    • Environment / Nature
    • Arts / Artists
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Spiritual / Mystical
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    Lights of Flushing
    Experimental
    Installation

    Lights of Flushing
    David Edward Keen

    Digital, color, sound, 3.01 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Music
    • Environment / Nature
    • Arts / Artists
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Ethnographic
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    718/212
    Narrative

    718/212
    David Edward Keen

    Digital, color, sound, 3.46 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Psychology / Mental Health
    • Philosophical
    • Technology
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Music
    • Environment / Nature
    • Ethnographic
    • Spiritual / Mystical
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    Stop
    Narrative

    Stop
    David Edward Keen

    Digital, color and b/w, sound, 3.35 min
    • Body
    • Psychology / Mental Health
    • Philosophical
    • Environment / Nature
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Ethnographic
    • Spiritual / Mystical
    • Economics

Biography

Self-taught in filmmaking, David Edward Keen came via photography, and interestingly, via musical composition, fascinated by the similarity between musical composition and cinema.

Studying musical composition and classical violin performance at Purchase College in the 1990s, his mentor, classical bassist and composer Alvin Brehm, first initiated comparison and thought about cinema.

Keen currently makes films on his own, contributing his own musical compositions and soundtrack.