Graeme Stout is the Film Studies Coordinator for the University of Minnesota, where he is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. He writes on contemporary films, television, and new media with a focus on issues of historical violence and radical politics.
The Beauty Within Complexity: Mark Jenkin’s Bait
The beauty of Mark Jenkin’s Brexit-era film Bait is the way that its small scale serves as a reflection for much larger economic realities that go well beyond Cornwall. British filmmaker Mark Jenkin made his surprising 2018 breakthrough experimental drama entirely with a hand-cranked Bolex camera on 16mm, black-and-white film that he processed by hand. Graeme Stout writes on Jenkin’s portrayal of the often romanticized Cornwall and the struggle of a community facing an oppressive economy.
