Welcome to the state of cinema. We think youll like it here. You can be whoever you want to be in this special place. You can lose yourself in great glens, or lie on your belly on heather and peat and dip your lips into crystal clear mountain streams and drink ice-cold water. You might see a stag or eat fairy cakes.
Were going to be doing something very romantic and passionate here. Because we love this place, its mackerel skies in November and its marmalade bracken, we are going to pull a 37 tonne cinema on wheels across it, from its crashing Atlantic waves to the dolphins of the Moray Firth. Well get hot and sweaty, or drenched with rain, and bitten by midges, and we might get blisters on our fingers and toes, but well show flickering, splendid dream movies as we go, in a cockeyed caravan, like clowns or dafties, or kids. Please join our motley crew. Become a mendicant friar with us, in your mind — in Beijing or Vancouver, or Dakar or Tampere or Canterbury — by checking in to this wee site each day between 1st and 9th August 2009 to find out how our blisters are getting on, and by watching some of the movies we are showing.
Better still, become a Fellow Traveller. Don a kilt and boots and bring a cheese sandwich and a tent, and walk this place of mountain streams and movie dreams in person.
Love from Mark Cousins and Tilda Swinton.
Get your mits on this lovingly shot film by official Pilgrimage chronicler Matt Hulse. Not too pricey, at just £12* for the hand-crafted DVD, or less if you order more than one.
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Pick up natty green A Pilgimage t-shirt, designed by the legendary John Byrne. Prices are £10 for kids size, and £15 for adult sizes*. Not many left, so nows your chance!
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