Mark Jenkin Movies

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

A portrait of a writer and her process

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

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 film poem, that is quiet and angry.

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

On-set documentary following the making of Mark Jenkin's film 'Rose of Nevada'

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

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

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

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