Mark Jenkin is an auteur to an extent rarely attempted by filmmakers. He writes his films, with Mary Woodvine, directs them, shoots them with a clockwork Bolex camera.
His previous feature films, Bait (2019) and Enys Men (2022), created a new sub-genre of hazy Cornish psychedelia – a meeting of Don’t Look Now, Penda’s Fen and Wycliffe. Jenkin’s achievements behind the camera obscure his work as a composer. He created the soundtrack for Enys Men, and now for his most recent film, Rose of Nevada (2025). That involved composing, engineering, producing and performing, uses guitar, synethsizers, percussion, loops and effects.
Rose of Nevada is a strange, sad, beautiful film about a faded Cornish fishing village.
Mark Jenkin – The Rose of Nevada (Original Score) (2026)

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