Mark Jenkin Trailers
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Mark Jenkin (born 1976; Newlyn) is a British (Cornish) director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer. He wrote and directed the film Bait (2019), which earned him a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
Jenkin won the Frank Copplestone First Time Director Award at The Celtic Film & Television Festival in 2002 for his debut film Golden Burn. He followed this success with documentaries, shorts and low-budget feature films including The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light, The Rabbit and The Lobsterman, a documentary on the life of Cornish playwright Nick Darke. His 2007 feature film The Midnight Drives was described by Derek Malcolm, film critic for The Evening Standard as "A moving film about parentage with an exceptional performance from Colin Holt at its centre". Jenkin wrote and directed the 2019 drama film Bait, starring his partner Mary Woodvine. In 2020, Jenkin was recognised as a Cornish Bard for his work in promoting Cornwall’s heritage. In 2022, he created two music videos for the band the Smile.
Most Popular Mark Jenkin Trailers
Total trailers found: 78
24 April 2026
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune.
13 October 2018
A walk through England’s south coast evokes the artists who lived and worked there.
21 June 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.
01 January 2014
A short film concerning the evolving nature of memory and the potential of theme to survive the randomisation of narrative.
25 June 2007
A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.
26 March 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.
23 September 2019
A poet is driven to complete a poem within an old writing case by the ghost of the last owner.
01 November 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.
01 January 2015
"In 1993 I travelled to London from Cornwall with the intention of shooting a music video for 'London' by The Smiths.
13 June 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.
12 January 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.
01 November 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.
28 September 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.
04 September 2020
An observation on the destructive nature of Late Capitalism on our collective culture
27 November 2020
A film shot on Super 8 with an entirely Stylophone produced score.
25 December 2011
An interwoven seaside hymn to gift wrapped promises and unwanted presence.
30 September 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 jackhammers and traffic hum.
10 November 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.
09 March 2016
A Cornishman's travels in Ireland, through Wexford, Waterford and Cork in search of the familiar.
02 November 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.
01 January 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.
01 November 2016
An old man muses on the plausibility of a memory...in a maize field in Brittany.
01 November 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.
01 November 2013
A trip down memory lane, and an actual lane.
01 November 2015
Animation using 4,500 still images
09 January 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 without apology.
09 December 2015
Audio recorded by Callum Mitchell from interviews conducted with people from the village
01 November 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.
28 October 2016
A film poem, that is quiet and angry.
01 November 2013
A portrait of a writer and her process
28 March 2023
Mark Jenkin explores a world he found most unsettling.
01 November 2004
A digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.
05 December 2017
The curious joy in the warm passing of time is most acute in the long shadows of the end of the lines
08 March 2013
A vision of transatlantic commonality.
01 November 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.
01 January 2015
Words by Callum Mitchell Soundscape by Rick Williams 16mm
01 December 2012
A film made with, and featuring, poet Callum Mitchell. Sound design by Seamus Carey.
08 June 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.
01 January 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.
19 April 2018
Started in 1993, finished in 2018. "David Bowie Is Dead" is a road movie in and out of london.
05 November 2011
Weekend Retreat is a darkly comic thriller set in an isolated house in the picturesque Cornish countryside.
