Come On Pilgrim
Presented as a series of visual field recordings captured on expired 16mm film and staged interventions in place, Come On Pilgrim originates in the experience of the filmmaker living in a flat overlooking the Mayflower steps in Plymouth (UK). This location provided a jumping-off point to interrogate histories of settler-colonialism, identity, and mythos in the surrounding landscape, from the viewpoint of a recent immigrant. These histories are related in fragmentary fashion by community members in a collage of voices, contrasting with monumental narratives set in stone. Throughout the film, history rubs against absurdity and elements of folk tradition. Fellow immigrants are rendered visible in everyday situations, protests are documented, a wizard invents an empire, vinyl is vandalized, and Anglo-Saxon re-enactors trek through the moors, gesturing towards waves of settlement on the island currently known as Great Britain
