ENYS MEN
Frighten Rock
“Now what did I come in here for again?”
Enys Men is a film that you
feel rather than understand. Shot on gloriously grainy 16mm, with its soundtrack entirely overdubbed, it has the hyperreal quality of a dream.
Mary Woodvine’s Volunteer roams an island following the same ritual day after day. She observes the growth of flowers, drops rocks down a mine shaft and reports her findings in a log book. And, for the first hour or so of the film, that’s kind of it.