Short | Super 8 | 2023
BAFTA-winning director Mark Jenkin (BAIT, Enys Men) explores his fascination with the magic of film and its life-giving properties in this brand new short film, commissioned by the BFI especially to mark the Film on Film Festival.
Director
- Mark Jenkin
Featuring
- Martin Coffil
- Liz Fowler
- Steve Grey
“That dog had been stuck maybe for twenty years in that cartridge as a latent image and had almost been missed. I don’t remember why I was in the studio late that night, but if I hadn’t, that dog would probably still be in that film cartridge.”
Interview with Mark Jenkin for BFI Film on Film Festival
It’s about his film making practice and his all-consuming love of the analogue process – the light, the sprockets, the chemicals – all the minute variables that can capture the world in 24 flickering frames per second. It tells the story of those obsessions and he chose this old Super 8 of a little white dog bounding about on some bleak Northern beach as a device to underpin his philosophy of film — that it can hold and reanimate precious moments and things.