KEITH (2021)
KEITH (Dir. AF Webb) is a film about how Keith Eldred came to own RAF Barnham, now know as Gorse Industrial Estate. The site, on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, housed Britain’s first nuclear weapon/deterrent and was used as the film’s primary shooting location. The film blends documentary style with scripted reenactment.
The film won Best Experimental Film at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival in 2021.
“KEITH exists as an original experimental film-poem. It is formidably dense in its image layering, creating a nuanced portrait of man and land. Abstract but not arbitrary, it’s possible to envision Alex picturing the subject of Keith as a photography publication before realising it as a film. As an artist committed to the enduring topic of place and its multitudinous meanings, I am sincerely looking forward to seeing where his lens goes next and what he might uncover beneath and beyond our strange, dreadful and enduring British landscape.”
- Andrew Finch, London Rocks