A short documentary about The (El) Camino De Santiago, a pilgrimage across France and Spain.

I walked 100k of the Camino at 14. At age 16, I'm armed with a few cameras and ready to battle out the final stretch to Cape Finisterre.

More films by me (I'm a lot older now) at
https://www.spinningshapes.com

Despite the short time I've had on the trail, I managed to meet a lot of people, discover a lot about myself loose some pounds. Writing this bio at 20, I want to thank everyone who watched this video, it saw a weird milestone in my life I didn't expect to receive in college. One day I will walk the full way and film it, I'm certain of that.

Website: https://www.spinningshapes.com
Email: [email protected]

Music by Josh Kemp "Stupid Cupid"
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Music by DJ Mentos "My Squad"
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Music by DJ Mentos "Meditation"
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Music by Tom Misch "Man Like You"
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Music by Josh Kemp "Four Letters"
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Music by DJ Mentos "Growth"
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Music by Tom Misch "The Journey"
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Music by BenjiStacks "Lucid"
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Music by Super Duper "Angela"
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Special thanks to Pilgrim House, Isobel Dugen for walking with me, Gillian Kincaid Dugen for organising our route and supporting the project and Sarah Fleming for having faith in the idea and forcing me to interview people.

Synopsis/Script

For over a thousand years, pilgrims have been making their way on foot to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, the resting place of the remains of Saint James. About 2.5 million people a year visit Santiago, over 200,000 of them walking the Camino, a pilgrimage across France and Spain. Traditionally, the Camino de Santiago should begin from the front door of your home. If you happened to live 50 kilometres away from the Cathedral, that was all you walked. If you live in Nottingham, like me, walking from your doorstep would take an inordinate amount of time. But, in fact, plenty of people in Europe do begin from their homes, a few weeks at a time over a number of years. So where did I begin my Camino? In 2013 I walked 116 kilometres from Sarria to Santiago in five days. This Easter, my challenge was to walk 90 kilometres in four days across hills, mountains and rivers from Santiago to Finisterre, The End of the World. Pilgrims from every background are today drawn to the Camino from all over the world. What is common to them all, is that they have left behind all that is familiar to them, in order to wake each day to a new stretch of road.

No two pilgrims are likely to experience or to understand the Camino in exactly the same way. Some will have walked one hundred kilometres, some five hundred, some more than a thousand. It is essential to travel as light as possible, as everything you need is carried on your back whilst walking roughly 20 kilometres each day. As a filmmaker, I had an excessive amount of equipment.

“The Way” is an inspirational film about Tom, a man who decides to walk the Camino after collecting the remains of his adult son, killed in a Pyrenees storm whilst walking the Camino. What Tom doesn’t plan on, is the profound impact the journey will have on his life. In a way, that very film had an impact on my life in that it inspired me to immediately plan to undertake the final aspect of the same journey, knowing that such an adventure would shape me as a human being at an informative stage in my life. There is a well known saying that the Camino begins when you reach the end. What does this mean to me? It is true that days of walking can produce fatigue, loneliness and pain. However, the sense of achievement that you get from completing such a journey is indescribable.

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