"Those in peril at sea are the subject of this arresting ghost story from Cornish film-maker Mark Jenkin. Set in a fishing village, it explores the intimate presence of death and the disquieting claustrophobia of family and community qualities often assumed to be eternal virtues. Maybe a film of just this kind was always what Jenkin's distinct film language was waiting for."
"His technique and his quasi-primitivist aesthetic favour the eerie and the uncanny; his films have the texture of early cinema updated to the present day, shot on 16mm, developed by hand in such a way as to create scratches on the print, with dialogue and ambient sound overdubbed. It all creates a drama that feels like a remembered dream, and when there are actual dream sequences the gap between the illusion and reality is very slight."
A local fisher in a depressed Cornish town discovers a trawler that went missing thirty years earlier has returned to the harbour. He informs a widow of one of the drowned crew, and shared dread leads to the decision to crew and put the boat back to sea. A grizzled captain and two young sailors join, reopening past loss and stirring supernatural unease across family and community. The work uses hand-processed 16mm with visible scratches, overdubbed sound and vivid Super-8-like colour to create an uncanny, dreamlike texture that blurs memory, reality and nightmare while evoking the tactile presence of celluloid.
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