Hard, Cracked the Wind
Jenkin's latest is a genuinely haunting ghost story, one simultaneously concrete and ethereal. Past and present subtly merge via a leather writing-case found in a bric-a-brac shop. Does the poet create the poem, or vice-versa?
Director's Biography
Mark Jenkin: Mark Jenkin was born in Cornwall, Great Britain, in 1970. He is an associate of Falmouth University where he lectures film and is the author of the "Silent Landscape Dancing Grain 13 Film Manifesto", promoting the possibilities of handmade film. He has made over 50 short films since 1997. In 2019, he made the short "Hard, Cracked the Wind" and the feature "Bait", which premiered at the Berlinale 2019.
Film Selection: Hard, Cracked the Wind (2019, short) - Bait (2019, CE'19) - David Bowie Is Dead (2018, doc short) - Tomato (2017, short) - A Forest (2016, doc) - Dear Marianne (2016, doc short) - The Essential Cornishman (2016, doc) - The Road to Zennor (2016, short) - Bronco's House (2015, mid-length) - Happy Christmas (2011) - Another Horizon (2008, short) - The Midnight Drives (2007) - The Rabbit (2004) - The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light (2003, short) - Golden Burn (2002)
Film Selection: Hard, Cracked the Wind (2019, short) - Bait (2019, CE'19) - David Bowie Is Dead (2018, doc short) - Tomato (2017, short) - A Forest (2016, doc) - Dear Marianne (2016, doc short) - The Essential Cornishman (2016, doc) - The Road to Zennor (2016, short) - Bronco's House (2015, mid-length) - Happy Christmas (2011) - Another Horizon (2008, short) - The Midnight Drives (2007) - The Rabbit (2004) - The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light (2003, short) - Golden Burn (2002)
Crossing Europe Extracts 2020
Mark Jenkin
Great Britain 2019
black and white
17 minutes
English / Cornish OV
Austrian Premiere
MARK JENKIN – SHORTS / 86 MIN BRONCO’S HOUSE
DEAR MARIANNE
THE ROAD TO ZENNOR
DAVID BOWIE IS DEAD
HARD, CRACKED THE WIND
