An Evening with Mark Jenkin

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Held on Mon, Mar 9, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash. 2026. UK. Directed by Mark Jenkin. Courtesy the filmmaker

Cornish artist Mark Jenkin joins us for the first monographic screening of his short films in New York, offering an invaluable glimpse into his expanded practice, and highlighting works that remain as significant in his oeuvre as his three acclaimed feature films. The program is bookended by a pair of his signature motormouthed travelogues: Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape, which captures Jenkin’s pilgrimage along the south coast of England to the Dungeness home of Derek Jarman; and his most recent assemblage of roving filmmaking, I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash, which is presented in its US premiere. Produced over 12 years—with some footage originally shot as early as the 1990s—the films in this selection range from elegant portraits of artists (Tomato) and experiments conducted according to the artist’s Silent Dancing Landscape Grain 13 manifesto (Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses), to pulsating city symphonies (David Bowie Is Dead) and the sublime Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup, a parable of labor, ecology, and humanity shot in a Cornish fishing village, which evokes Jean Epstein’s littoral masterpieces while remaining distinctly Jenkin’s own.

Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape. 2018. UK. DCP from Super8mm. 5 min.
Tomato. 2017. UK. DCP from 16mm. 8 min.
Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup. 2016. UK. DCP from 16mm. 36 min.
Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses. 2013. UK. DCP from Super8mm. 6 min.
David Bowie Is Dead. 2018. UK. DCP from Super8mm. 17 min.
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash. 2025. UK. DCP from Super8mm. 17 min. US premiere.

Program approx. 89 min.

This film accompanies Modern Mondays and Doc Fortnight 2026: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.

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