Camino, een Feature-Length Selfie plot
Martin de Vries decides without any significant preparation to walk the Camino, the famous pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella: from Le Puy-en-Velay in central France to northwestern Spain, a journey of 1600 kilometers in almost seventy days. While walking, he films himself, his feet, his shadow, the path, the fields and the woods and tries to figure out why he embarked on this adventure. Fellow hikers and overnight places are only sporadically visible. While he points the camera at himself while walking, De Vries muses relatively soberly about discomfort and euphoric moments, about the beautiful morning light and the sound of the birds, about doubts and growing confidence. He learns to be 'in the moment' and gradually examines his motives and his demons more and more candidly.