Enys Men

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Russell, Calum (11 January 2023). " 'Enys Men' Review: Mark Jenkin's meditative homegrown experience". Far Out . Retrieved 15 January 2023.

Love film and TV? Join BBC Culture Film and TV Club on Facebook, a community for cinephiles all over the world. The Shining is also possibly referenced as well as the subgenre of body horror – although this element is never as nightmarish as some of the grotesquery glimpsed in David Cronenberg’s more extreme productions. a b Bradshaw, Peter (20 May 2022). "Enys Men review – a supremely disquieting study of solitude". The Guardian. Her life is quiet, punctuated by the occasional scratchy rumblings of a radio and the starter cord motor for her petrol generator, on which she is dependent for power. At bedtime she reads an environmental manifesto, Blueprint for Survival. Her relationship with Boswens is strange; the volunteer seems alone – but is she? In April 2023 Enys Men will be released on BFI Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) with contextual extras and on BFI Player where it will join Bait and a selection of Jenkin’s early work. Sales are through Protagonist Pictures.Ella Turner, who worked as a production coordinator on the shoot and herself a graduate from Falmouth, explains: “The students showed their hard work and keenness to learn right from day one, using their initiative throughout the shoot, fitting in with all departments and always ready to help out. I loved working with the team, it’s so relieving when you can rely on someone to get on with things.”

Lichen appears on one of the flowers and then spreads to places you would not easily imagine. People begin to appear without any explanation. The woman looks into a bedroom and is unsurprised to see a dark-haired girl (played by Flo Crowe) sleeping there. Who is she? A younger version of herself? Her daughter? A hallucination? A ghost? Mark Jenkin isn’t a director with any inclination to spoonfeed audiences what to think.

Venues

The Duchy of Cornwall (1938, 15 mins): the strange beauty of Cornwall resonates through this iconic film from the vaults of the BFI National Archive Jenkin is a professor at Falmouth University and Enys Men was produced with Falmouth University lecturer Denzil Monk for his own company Bosena Production. It’s presented by Film4 in association with Falmouth University’s Sound/Image Cinema Lab. We’ve been involving students in feature film production for over a decade now but seeing students working in all weathers on remote locations is a privilege to be able to offer, and extremely rewarding for those involved. Many of these students were second year undergraduates at the time – and we can see the impact on their learning and the ambition of their own practice when they move into the third year, and after graduation – where those involved have moved immediately into roles within the film and television industries.”