Artist : Mark Jenkin & Bicep
Title : Apricots
Medium : single channel video with sound



Bafta Award winning Mark Jenkin’s glorious hand made film was produced to accompany electronic duo, Bicep’s sound track ‘Apricots’. The film provides an elemental, pantheist meditation on the interconnectedness between humanity and nature.

Born and based in Cornwall, Mark Jenkin works in digital and analogue mediums and hand-processed super8/16mm film. Jenkin is predominately interested in experimentation within the form. His work is involved with exploring the contemporary possibilities of Expanded Cinema and the moving image within the gallery space. He is based at the Newlyn School of Art where he has a studio/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 and has also produced film elements for the West End, Kneehigh Theatre and Wild Works. In 2002 he was awarded the Frank Copplestone First Time Director Award at The Celtic Film Festival for his film Golden Burnand. He is also a Royal Television Society Award Winner for his documentary, My Name is Zac and has written and directed 3 minimalist narrative feature films that have been exhibited internationally. His most recent feature film Bait (2019), was distributed theatrically by the BFI, for which Mark won the BAFTA Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer in 2020 among many other international accolades. His most recent feature film Enys Men, began shooting in 2021 and is produced in partnership with Film4.



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