Enys Men [DVD + Blu-ray]

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Enys Men is set on an uninhabited island in Cornwall in 1973 and follows the daily life of a volunteer who is studying the flora and fauna of the area.

Jenkin also talks about presenting Bait with a live score, and his plans for doing the same with Enys Men. Enys Men is an open text which doesn’t explain itself and allows you to form your own interpretations of it, which may be entrancing or infuriating according to taste and sensibility. The transfer has plenty of grain, as you would expect from its 16mm origins, and some of the colours, reds especially do pop, due to stopping the camera down and pushing the film during processing. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Given the intended audience, Haunters of the Deep is less enigmatic and less “open” than Enys Men, resolving itself quite neatly.There, a single volunteer (Mary Woodvine) recording data on an unfamiliar flower finds her lonely daily observations turning troublingly towards the strange and metaphysical, forcing her to question what is real and what is nightmare. Pace is measured, even for a not-especially-long film as this, and to my mind after two viewings it is over-extended. Along with that, there’s Mary Woodvine as the volunteer, who spends most of the time using her body language, and she’s fantastic. We will introduce you exclusively to Newpay finance products provided by NewDay Limited under this Introducer Appointed Representative arrangement. It’s not really a traditional narrative piece, much more a kind of puzzle perhaps, and it’s very much a film that you begin to decode as the imagery and the sound soak in.

The eerie ethno-mysticism of Jenkin influences The Shout (1978), The Last Wave (1977) and Walkabout (1971) also lie in Enys Men’s unquiet soil, where the films’ Aboriginal earth-magic becomes Cornish. The modest, personable Jenkin provides audio diaries as lockdown postpones Enys Men and a third film is written, considers sound with Peter Strickland and is interviewed with Woodvine. From visionary filmmaker Mark Jenkin, the Bafta award-winning director of Bait, Enys Men is a mind-bending Cornish folk horror set in 1973 that unfolds on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast. Filmed on location around the disused tin mines of West Penwith, it is also an ode to Cornwall’s rich folklore and natural beauty. Jamie has written a couple of short films screened on British TV and at international festivals and he regularly contributes to the glam rock fanzine Wired Up!The site has excelled past all expectations with many only giving the site months and it's still going strong.