Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
TOMATO
Synopsis
Filmmaker Mark Jenkin takes to the Cornish peninsula with two painters and observes as they attempt to capture the craggy shoreline en plein air. Battling the inclement weather, the three artists draw, paint, and film, exchanging thoughts on tomatoes, coastal light, and Derek Jarman.
Synopsis
Filmmaker Mark Jenkin takes to the Cornish peninsula with two painters and observes as they attempt to capture the craggy shoreline en plein air. Battling the inclement weather, the three artists draw, paint, and film, exchanging thoughts on tomatoes, coastal light, and Derek Jarman.
Our take
Handling his camera with the loose delicacy of watercolorist, Cornish experimentalist Mark Jenkin pushes the celluloid image toward the elemental abstractions of landscape painting. Talk between Jenkin’s collaborators overlaps like waves on a shore in this sea-hazy impression of artists at work.