ROSE OF NEVADA Official Trailer: Mark Jenkin's Mystery Drama is Coming to Theaters This June

Three decades ago, the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. In a remote fishing village, its reappearance is embraced as an auspicious sign, with the local citizens convinced the luck of their economically devastated community may turn, if only the ship sails again. Joining the crew is Nick (George MacKay), desperate to provide for his young family, and Liam (Callum Turner), a mysterious drifter eager to escape his past. After a successful voyage, they return to harbor, only to find that nothing is as they remember it.

 

Shooting on a 16mm Bolex camera and constructing all the sound in post, Mark Jenkin writes, directs, edits and scores a haunting and hallucinatory time-travel mystery that further solidifies him as one of the most distinct, singular artists working in film today. Jenkin conducts a cinematic séance, conjuring a portal into another world that forces us to confront the past and our relationship to it.

Mark Jenkin, with his previous features, Bait and Enys Men, showcases not only how the means of a film is part of the story, but how the particular means of print film, as well as the time and care invested in post-production sound, make all the difference, whether the film be a social realist drama or an experimental horror. Now, he blends these two genres in his third feature, Rose of Nevada.

 

Rose of Nevada once again shows Jenkin as a rare voice that combines artistic talent with stories of social urgency, his labour in making a film reflecting the labour that comes with community. There are individuals voices, but strength comes from human contact, connection, some sacrifice, and understanding the ancient ways that still rule us all, even if only from the deep.