Media case study

  ONLINE/UK BAIT is available to stream in the UK via these platforms: BFI Player Curzon Home Cinema Amazon iTunes You can also purchase BAIT to watch at home: DVD/Blu Ray UK TV BAIT pops up every now and then on Film4 followed by a short run on ALL4 keep your eyes peeled! CINEMA SCREENINGS For opportunities to see BAIT on the big screen in the UK visit listings on the BFI page List of UK Theatrical screenings …and ask your local independent cinema when it is coming!

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  “Working with film is hands on. I feel directly connected, through my hands to all those people who have been processing movies in the same way for over a hundred years. Like life it is full of inconsistencies, the grain, the flicker, bring content and form that no matter how hard you try, cannot be separated. I love the craft element of hand processing film, creating something with your hands. Humans need that. I'm increasingly realising I need that.” - Mark Jenkin “I love how incredibly simple the Bolex is: I think I fully understand everything it can do and how it does it. It’s incredibly robust, and beautifully engineered; it makes a lovely sound. It’s very easy to load, and it takes beautiful lenses which create wonderful images. And it looks stunning. I would quite happily hang it on my wall like a painting. It’s a work of art.” - Mark Jenkin

  Short: Fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is at war with his brother Steven, who has appropriated their boat for tourist cruises. He’s also bristling against Tim and Sandra Leigh, the well-off Londoners who bought his childhood home. As the end of summer nears, a misguided prank leads to rising tensions. Long:  The picture-postcard idyll of the Cornwall fishing village is misleading. While fishing used to be a way of supporting oneself, wealthy London tourists have now descended and are displacing the locals, whose livelihood is thus threatened. The relationship between brothers Steven and Martin is also strained. Martin is a fisherman without a boat, since Steven started using it for far more lucrative tours for all the day-trippers. They’ve sold the family cottage and now it seems that the final battle to be fought is that with the new owners over the parking space next to the sea. Yet the situation soon gets out of hand, and not just because of the wheel clamp. Bait is a blac...

 

  Camera and Electrical Department The Lark (additional camera operator) Golden Burn (camera operator) Composer  New UK Filmmakers: Program (Short) (segment "Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape") Sound department The Road to Zennor (Documentary short) (sound editor) New Reed (Video documentary) (sound editor) Self  New Reed (Video documentary)