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Mark Jenkin
Film is the medium for Mark Jenkin, the filmmaker who has championed celluloid throughout a highly distinctive career.
With his BFI-distributed feature film Bait in 2019 writer-director Mark Jenkin achieved a genuine indie sensation. From seemingly outside of Britain’s traditional filmmaking structures the film emerged to reached a wide audience, despite its ostensibly semi-experimental form. Yet Jenkin had been making films since 2002, ploughing a particular filmmaking furrow based around analogue techniques, home-made solutions, and adherence to his own DIY filmmaking manifesto, Silent Landscape Dancing Grain 13. (One of the rules being to break one of the preceding rules.)
Here we present a selection of Jenkin’s other works in order to highlight an under-explored filmmaking journey. Focusing on his longer shorts and mid-length works, we include Bronco’s House (2015), the 44-minute film that brought Jenkin to the attention of critical champions such as Mark Kermode, and which has many thematic resonances with Bait. His other mid-length work Enough to Fill An Eggcup (2016) can in some ways be seen as a summation of his various earlier Cornish landscape shorts. While David Bowie Is Dead (2018) finds Jenkin in a completely different, urban rhythm – an amphetamine rush through Patrick Keiller-esque psychogeography. Finally, the BFI Network-funded Hard, Cracked the Wind (2019) shows Jenkin still developing his short-form techniques even after the production of Bait; channelling both MR James and John Carpenter for this eerily atmospheric genre piece.
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Enys MenEnys Men
Horror202291 minsDirector: Mark Jenkin
Mark Jenkin follows Bait with this chilling, endlessly mysterious folk horror tale, beautifully shot on grainy 16mm.
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BaitBait
Drama201989 minsDirector: Mark Jenkin
Simmering tensions between locals and newcomers in a modern-day Cornish fishing village reach boiling point in this hugely acclaimed British independent film.
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Mark Jenkin's The Cinematic DNA of Enys Men
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