Mark Jenkin

Seven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up...

A digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.

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 disturbed woman takes refuge in a decaying abandoned building with her children. When a mysterious man and woman enter her gloomy territory she...

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

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

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....

A short film concerning the evolving nature of memory and the potential of theme to survive the randomisation of narrative.

Seven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up...

Seven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up...

Seven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up...

Seven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up...

Living in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing...

Living in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing...

Living in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing...

Living in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing...

Living in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing...

A digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.

A digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.

A digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.

A digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.

A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.

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

A vision of transatlantic commonality.

A vision of transatlantic commonality.

A vision of transatlantic commonality.

A trip down memory lane, and an actual lane.

A trip down memory lane, and an actual lane.

A trip down memory lane, and an actual lane.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 film made with, and featuring, poet Callum Mitchell. Sound design by Seamus Carey.

A portrait of a writer and her process

In spring 2012 three oak trees were delivered to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, UK. This marked the beginning of an experimental archeology...

Animation using 4,500 still images

Audio recorded by Callum Mitchell from interviews conducted with people from the village

An old man muses on the plausibility of a memory...in a maize field in Brittany.

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....

Nick Darke, who comes from a long line of beachcombers ("wreckers", to use the Cornish term), traces the origins of all the items that he has...

It's funny how past affects the future. We follow an oyster fisherman Jack Rowe, who is haunted by his childhood as his father, Johnny Rowe, a...

Nick Darke, who comes from a long line of beachcombers ("wreckers", to use the Cornish term), traces the origins of all the items that he has...

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....

Weekend Retreat is a darkly comic thriller set in an isolated house in the picturesque Cornish countryside. Karen Campbell has brought her husband...

A disturbed woman takes refuge in a decaying abandoned building with her children. When a mysterious man and woman enter her gloomy territory she...

Nick Darke, who comes from a long line of beachcombers ("wreckers", to use the Cornish term), traces the origins of all the items that he has...

In this extraordinary film shot on the rugged North Cornwall coast, director Jane Darke starts recording her husband Nick's life as a fisherman,...

BIRT DYNELY is set in the real town of Falmouth, Cornwall, but it is a surreal comedy fiction, a strange tale of loss, ambition and endeavour ending...

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

"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...

A disturbed woman takes refuge in a decaying abandoned building with her children. When a mysterious man and woman enter her gloomy territory she...

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...

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

Mark Jenkin directs ‘Skrting on the Surface’ for The Smile.

Mark Jenkin explores a world he found most unsettling.

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

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

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

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

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

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 trip down memory lane, and an actual lane.

A trip down memory lane, and an actual lane.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Words by Callum Mitchell Soundscape by Rick Williams 16mm

An interwoven seaside hymn to gift wrapped promises and unwanted presence.

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.

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

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

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

An interwoven seaside hymn to gift wrapped promises and unwanted presence.

A vision of transatlantic commonality.

A vision of transatlantic commonality.

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

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

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

The early morning light of a new day in a fishing village in Cornwall symbolizes an awakening in oneself - a remembering of who one is and who one...

"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...

"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...

Seven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up...

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

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

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

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

A film poem, that is quiet and angry.

Playful meditation upon landscape, colour and the process of collaborative filmmaking. As two artists battle the inclement Cornish weather they...

A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.

A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.

An observation on the destructive nature of Late Capitalism on our collective culture

An observation on the destructive nature of Late Capitalism on our collective culture

An observation on the destructive nature of Late Capitalism on our collective culture

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

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

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