Pilgrimage

Mark Jenkin explores a world he found most unsettling.

Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while portraying the period in which Christ roamed the countryside preaching the gospel.

Drawing on issues of memory, decay, palimpsest and the rubbing together of archive, fiction and situations, pilgrimage was constructed from found strips of 8mm amateur footage gleaned during a residency in Sydney, Australia. The original footage—a tourist’s voyeuristic, filmed impressions of a pilgrimage in a crowded urban space, where the faithful painfully stumble before the entrance of a temple—was reworked using an optical printer and other hand-made techniques.

This very short film from the Canada Vignettes series documents the annual pilgrimage that members of Saskatchewan’s Métis Catholic community make to St. Laurent, a village in the Duck Lake area that became the Métis nation’s spiritual centre at the time of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion.

Eight intrepid pilgrims trek through the Himalaya into occupied Tibet, hoping to circle Mount Kailash—Asia’s most sacred peak. As they contend with the stresses of officialdom, altitude and physical exertion, we receive rare glimpses of present-day Nepal and Tibet.

Japanese instrumental rock band MONO and Spanish film collective Alison collaborate together to create a unique narrative - fusion live music film entitled "Live Pilgrimage in Madrid"

“The Pilgrimage to Makkah”(1963) is a historic visual record of the yearly holy ritual, shot by Safouh I. Naamani, a pioneer of color photography in the Kingdom. For 13 years, from 1950 to 1963, Naamani was determined to produce a documentary about the Pilgrimage. Receiving official approval in 1963, work began and was completed nine months later in San Francisco where an Arabic and a differing English version were produced. The film was one of many projects documenting the life of the Kingdom recorded by Naamani, including internal events as well as official international visits hosted by His Majesty King Faisal. Also screening for the first time as a collected work is unique Jeddah footage, captured by Naamani from 1954-1968 on his 16 mm camera.

'Pilgrimage from Scattered Points' is a film about the English composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) and The Scratch Orchestra (1968-73). Cornelius Cardew formed the orchestra with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton in 1968 and published their draft constitution in "The Musical Times" in June 1969. The constitution set out the framework, which would dominate the orchestra's musical work for the first half of its existence. It proposed a fluid community where students, office workers, amateur musicians and some professional composers would gather together for performance, music making and edification.

In this documentary film, Soyuko goes undercover at a rumored haunted place, and the camera follows the whole process. Yuko Mune, who has examined many ghost photos and taken ghost photos herself.

This is the third installment in the "Shikoku Pilgrimage" series of horror documentaries in which horror storyteller Junji Inagawa goes directly to haunted places to verify the truth behind them.

ONE MIND is an immersive cinematic meditation on Zen monastic life in China, where a communion of nature, meditation, and labor reveals a carefully crafted way of life that reflects the very wisdom it seeks to cultivate.

A walk to forget.

In November 2003, the two artists took part in a traditional pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Mixing with the devout, the two artists visit and film landmark sites Christians the world over dream of seeing.

There was, perhaps, no more imaginative a tribute to Bach in 2000, the year which marked the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, than The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage undertaken by the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists under their conductor, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

This is the second installment in the "Shikoku Pilgrimage" series of horror documentaries in which horror storyteller Junji Inagawa goes directly to haunted places to verify the truth behind them.

This is the first installment in the "Shikoku Pilgrimage" series of horror documentaries in which horror storyteller Junji Inagawa visits haunted places and verifies the truth behind them. In Tokushima Prefecture, he visits an abandoned drive-in that is rumored to have been closed down after its half-crazed owner was admitted to a mental hospital, and conducts an on-the-spot investigation.