No Prescribed Way to Make a Film: An Interview with Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada

Mark Jenkin had been making films for years before his debut feature, Bait, effectively took the UK by storm. Success across the festival circuit (a World Premiere at the Berlinale, a U.S. Premiere at New Directors/New Films, and a UK Premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival) in 2019 prompted the BFI’s distribution arm to pick it up and properly put it in cinemas. A phenomenon of hand-processed film, self-composed score, post-sync sound, and stitched-together locations was less born than realized...