Mark Jenkin Movies

A portrait of a writer and her process

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A film poem, that is quiet and angry.

“I love films that foreground the fact that you are watching film,” states British director Mark Jenkin, who in his film diary returns,...

In the studio with Mark Jenkin

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