Compostela: Myths and Symbols of the Road

The twelfth century saw the great flowering of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in north western Spain.

The most comprehensive exploration of the Romanesque art and culture of the four French pilgrimage roads and the Spanish Camino Frances, using illustrated articles, photo galleries and videos.

The Compostelan Cycle

The Compostelan Cycle is a work of video art with a duration of five hours and a quarter. It consists of 15 chapters each representing a stage along the four medieval pilgrimage roads to Santiago de Compostela through France and the single route across northern Spain. Taking inspiration from a medieval Latin manuscript, the work restricts itself to what would have been visible to a traveller around the middle of the twelfth century.The intention behind the work has been to create an immersive, non-narrative historical and anthropological psychogeography. Any informative documentary approach has been abandoned in favour of an experiential piece aimed at accessing the multiple symbolic layers of meaning in Romanesque sculpture and allowing their oneiric qualities to breath fully. View trailer here. View excerpt here. View submission here. Please contact me if you are interested in screening the work