Location

Jenkin filmed Bait using a vintage hand-cranked Bolex camera, using 16mm monochrome film that he hand processed. Shooting locations include Gooninnis House in St Agnes, Charlestown and West Penwith, in Cornwall.
Much of the film was shot in the Admiral Benbow, Penzance. This pub, opened in 1959, houses thousands of artefacts salvaged from ships wrecked of the Cornish coast and the Isles of Scilly.

Set and filmed in Cornwall, UK, the narrative follows Martin, a fisherman without a boat after his brother Steven has re-purposed the trawler as a tourist trrip.

Locations included the harbour and quayside in the fishing village of Charlestown, a housing estate in Sennen, the Admiral Benbow pub in Penzance, and the grounds of Newlyn School Of Art, formerly a primary school, now a popular artists' colony and the place where Jenkin has his studio.

Upon its release, Bait - which Jenkin shot without location sound using 16mm clockwork cameras, before hand-processing the entire rushes in his own studio - was applauded by the critics as a "dreamlike masterpiece", with Jenkin himself hailed as "one of the most arresting and intriguing British filmmakers of his generation."

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