Mark Jenkin Movies

  • 2013
    Summer in February

    Summer in February

    Summer in February

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    The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which...

    Summer in February
  • 2019
    Bait

    Bait

    Bait

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    Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge...

    Bait
  • 2023
    Enys Men

    Enys Men

    Enys Men

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    A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes...

    Enys Men
  • 2018
    Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape

    Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape

    Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape

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    A walk through England’s south coast evokes the artists who lived and worked there.

    Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape
  • 2015
    Bronco's House

    Bronco's House

    Bronco's House

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    A young couple quest for a roof in this Cornwall-set drama with the atmosphere of a thriller, made with hand-developed B&W 16mm.

    Bronco's House
  • 2023
    A Dog Called Discord

    A Dog Called Discord

    A Dog Called Discord

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    Mark Jenkin explores his fascination with the magic of film and its life-giving properties in this brand new short film, commissioned by the BFI to...

    A Dog Called Discord
  • 2022
    29 Hour Long Birthday

    29 Hour Long Birthday

    29 Hour Long Birthday

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    British filmmaker Mark Jenkin (whose latest feature Enys Men is part of this year’s Main Slate) mails this postcard from a melancholic holiday...

    29 Hour Long Birthday
  • 2019
    Hard, Cracked the Wind

    Hard, Cracked the Wind

    Hard, Cracked the Wind

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    A poet is driven to complete a poem within an old writing case by the ghost of the last owner.

    Hard, Cracked the Wind
  • 2018
    David Bowie Is Dead

    David Bowie Is Dead

    David Bowie Is Dead

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    Started in 1993, finished in 2018. "David Bowie Is Dead" is a road movie in and out of london.

    David Bowie Is Dead
  • 2017
    The Road to Zennor

    The Road to Zennor

    The Road to Zennor

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    The curious joy in the warm passing of time is most acute in the long shadows of the end of the line autumn coming stillness

    The Road to Zennor
  • 2016
    Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup

    Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup

    Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup

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    A film poem, that is quiet and angry.

    Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup
  • 2016
    The Essential Cornishman

    The Essential Cornishman

    The Essential Cornishman

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    Mark Jenkin's 2015 short film is a homage to the spontaneous prose of The Beats, from the mythical Cornish west.

    The Essential Cornishman
  • 2016
    Dear Marianne

    Dear Marianne

    Dear Marianne

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    A Cornishman's travels in Ireland, through Wexford, Waterford and Cork in search of the familiar.

    Dear Marianne
  • 2015
    London

    London

    London

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    "In 1993 I travelled to London from Cornwall with the intention of shooting a music video for 'London' by The Smiths. I had transcribed the lyrics...

    London
  • 2013
    Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses

    Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses

    Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses

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    A vision of transatlantic commonality.

    Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses
  • 2008
    Another Horizon

    Another Horizon

    Another Horizon

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    Another Horizon
  • 2009
    Aurora's Kiss

    Aurora's Kiss

    Aurora's Kiss

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    A study of modern social dislocation, via an open and frank conversation between the conscious and the unconscious; a partly fabricated first person...

    Aurora's Kiss
  • 2003
    The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light

    The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light

    The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light

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    One of the Bait director’s earliest shorts is a nightmarish vision of life spent behind the wheel, where time melts and car becomes prison....

    The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light
  • 2023
    The Shout: A Pilgrimage

    The Shout: A Pilgrimage

    The Shout: A Pilgrimage

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    Mark Jenkin explores a world he found most unsettling.

    The Shout: A Pilgrimage
  • 2020
    Porth Trethek

    Porth Trethek

    Porth Trethek

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    A film shot on Super 8 with an entirely Stylophone produced score.

    Porth Trethek