Mark Jenkin

A Dog Called Discord (2023)

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 the Film on Film Festival. ...

The Shout: A Pilgrimage (2023)

Mark Jenkin explores a world he found most unsettling. ...

Enys Men (2023)

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

29 Hour Long Birthday (2022)

British filmmaker Mark Jenkin (whose latest feature Enys Men is part of this year's Main Slate) mails this postcard from a melancholic holiday in New York and its environs, rendering the city in grainy monochrome Super 8 and a familiar urban soundtrack of ...

Skrting on the Surface (2022)

Mark Jenkin directs 'Skrting on the Surface' for The Smile. ...

Porth Trethek (2020)

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

A Tongueless Man (2020)

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

Hard, Cracked the Wind (2019)

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

Bait (2019)

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 between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate ...

Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape (2018)

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

David Bowie Is Dead (2018)

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

The Road to Zennor (2017)

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 ...

Tomato (2017)

Playful meditation upon landscape, colour and the process of collaborative filmmaking. As two artists battle the inclement Cornish weather they discuss Derek Jarman, the golden light and the magic of the craggy coastline. ...

The Field in Paul Where The Sun Goes to Bed Each Night (2016)

Saint-Pol-de-Léon June (2016)

Dougie & Jimmy (2016)

The Essential Cornishman (2016)

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

A Forest (2016)

The Lady with the Long Brown Hair (2016)

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

Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup (2016)

A film poem, that is quiet and angry. ...

Dear Marianne (2016)

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

What You See is What You Get (2015)

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

The Fisherman’s Prayer (2015)

Sandy Cove (2015)

Newlyn Light (2015)

Animation using 4,500 still images ...

Bronco's House (2015)

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. ...

No.10 (2015)

Words by Callum Mitchell Soundscape by Rick Williams 16mm ...

London (2015)

"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 and noted the timings and had then made a detailed shot-list. The whole thing would be edited in camera on a ...

Skilly (2014)

Never Be Me (2014)

An Air That Kills (2014)

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

St Buryan to Lamorna/Orange (2013)

A trip down memory lane, and an actual lane. ...

Plunge (2013)

A portrait of a writer and her process ...

If This Is No-one's Then It's Ours (2013)

Morgawr (2013)

In spring 2012 three oak trees were delivered to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, UK. This marked the beginning of an experimental archeology project to build something not seen on these shores for 3,000 years. ...

Paris 14 (2013)

Summer in February (2013)

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 included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as on ...

Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses (2013)

A vision of transatlantic commonality. ...

The Darkest Place I Know (2012)

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

The Tournament (2012)

The St. Columb Club (2012)

Cornish Wrestling (2012)

Jubilee Pool (2012)

Happy Christmas (2011)

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

Weekend Retreat (2011)

Weekend Retreat is a darkly comic thriller set in an isolated house in the picturesque Cornish countryside. Karen Campbell has brought her husband Duncan away for a 'quiet weekend', a chance to communicate and rebuild their fractured marriage. Duncan plays ...

Nettlecatfish (2011)

You See Me in Whatever Light that You Choose (2011)

The Source (2011)

Mouette (2010)

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 Whaler, was away for months and never had time for Jack on his return. This troubled childhood has left Jack a so ...

Thoughts From Inside a Headache (2010)

The Lost Footage of the Fabulous ‘Shorty’ Backways Brothers (2010)

Riviera (2010)

Last Post (2009)

John & Me (2009)

The Fireman (2009)

Long Rock (2009)

Aurora's Kiss (2009)

A study of modern social dislocation, via an open and frank conversation between the conscious and the unconscious; a partly fabricated first person diary concerned with truth rather than fact, where the line between reality and fantasy is danced upon with ...

Wake to a Dream (2009)

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 can be. ...

Another Horizon (2008)

The Lark (2007)

A disturbed woman takes refuge in a decaying abandoned building with her children. When a mysterious man and woman enter her gloomy territory she realises her children's lives are in danger and will stop and nothing to protect them. But is everything what ...

The Art of Catching Lobsters (2007)

In this extraordinary film shot on the rugged North Cornwall coast, director Jane Darke starts recording her husband Nick's life as a fisherman, beachcomber and playwright. Already recovering from a stroke, Nick is then unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer. ...

The Midnight Drives (2007)

A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall. ...

The Mixed Emotions of a Middle Distance Runner (2006)

The 12 Inch Pianist (2006)

Plug (2005)

Talking Coasts (2005)

The Rabbit (2004)

Living in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing boat and the local hotel-owner's prize winning rabbit. ...

New Reed (2004)

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

The Wrecking Season (2004)

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 discovered during one stormy winter while beachcombing along the coast of Cornwall near his home. Some of the obje ...

Birt Dynely (2003)

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 with a tragic retreat into fantasy. It is the allegory of both a mythical beach and a life suffocated in th ...

City (2003)

The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light (2003)

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. Despite its low budget, The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light sews all the seeds for Bait, and shows the vision in prog ...

Golden Burn (2001)

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 with two brothers and the son of a local druid, Chris is taken on a trail of discovery and incident, culmina ...

The Lobsterman (2001)

A Dog Called Discord (2023)

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 the Film on Film Festival. ...

David Bowie Is Dead (2018)

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

Dear Marianne (2016)

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

The Lark (2007)

A disturbed woman takes refuge in a decaying abandoned building with her children. When a mysterious man and woman enter her gloomy territory she realises her children's lives are in danger and will stop and nothing to protect them. But is everything what ...

New Reed (2004)

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

Golden Burn (2001)

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 with two brothers and the son of a local druid, Chris is taken on a trail of discovery and incident, culmina ...