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The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim
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| In the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim video/performance pieces, Blandy integrates real life and virtual adventures. Donning the orange robes of a Buddhist Shaolin Monk, portable record player in hand, the Lone Pilgrim has been a hermit in an 18th Century park in Surrey, made an Amercan road trip, and searched for the places that had associations with soul songs in New York. |
In Soul of the Lakes, the Lone Pilgrim walked between the only two record shops in the Lake District in the north of England, searching for soul. Intercutting the footage of the real journey with segments from films such as Shogun Assassin and Princess Mononoke and television programmes Kung Fu and Monkey, the film of the performance weaves together an idiosyncratic tale of self-discovery which is all the more believable for its shifts into fantasy and personal reverie. |
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| Related work |
| Hermit's Diary |
2004 |
Comic (16 pages) |
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| The Five Boroughs of the Soul |
2004 |
DVD (12 mins) |
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| The Soul of the Lakes |
2005 |
DVD (25 mins) |
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| The Soul of London |
2006 |
DVD (15 mins) |
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