Mark Jenkin Movies

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...

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

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

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...

Words by Callum Mitchell Soundscape by Rick Williams 16mm

A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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