Mark Jenkin

www.markjenkin.co.uk

Mark Jenkin is an artist and filmmaker based in West Cornwall.
Working in digital and analogue mediums and hand-processing super8/16mm film Mark is
predominately interested in experimentation within the form, Slow Cinema and
Remodernist Film. His work at present is involved with exploring the contemporary
possibilities of Expanded Cinema and the movie image within the gallery space.
He is based at the Newlyn School of Art where he has a studio/micro-lab and as a member
of the Newlyn Society of Artists his work has been exhibited in the UK and Europe.
He is the author of the Silent Landscape Dancing Grain 13 (SLDG13) Film Manifesto
which promotes the aesthetic and practical benefits of handmade celluloid work.
www.checkthis.com/sldg13
He has produced film elements for the West End, Kneehigh Theatre and Wild Works
He lectures Film, Moving Image and Digital Media at Falmouth University and through his
teaching is keen to embrace lo-fi practical approaches and develop filmmakers as
individual freethinking artists as well as collaborative practitioners.
In 2002 he was awarded the Frank Copplestone First Time Director Award at The Celtic
Film Festival for his film Golden Burn and he is also a Royal Television Society Gold
Award Winner for his documentary My Name is Zac.
He has written and directed 2 minimalist narrative feature films that have been exhibited at
home and abroad:
The Midnight Drives (2007) “A moving film about parentage with an exceptional
performance from Colin Holt at its centre.” Derek Malcolm
and...
Happy Christmas (2011) "Jenkin most closely follows the example of cinema's archetypal
humanist, Jean Renoir, who always insisted that everyone has their reasons." EMPIRE
Mark is the great, great, great Grandson of primitive artist Alfred Wallis.
Selected Mixed Exhibitions:
Reality Check / Newlyn 2010
Lobe Film Exhibition / Berlin 2010
Art 75 / Penzance 2010
Dark Rooms / Helston 2013
Limbo / Truro 2013
Dark Nights / Truro 2013
Nature's Chord / Penzance 2013

www.markjenkin.co.uk