PATER NOSTER from Salomon on Vimeo.


Pilgrim: a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. • (usu. Pilgrim) a member of a group of English Puritans fleeing religious persecution who sailed in the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. • a person who travels on long journeys. • chiefly poetic/literary a person whose life is compared to a journey.

 'Not all those who wander are lost' - JRR Tolkien

 Inspired by the writings of John Bunyan. 'Pater Noster' is latin for 'Our Father' - it is the abstract exploration of a couple navigating their relationship, thru the weather of the life journey.

 (I like the abstraction of this and I love the poem. For me, it is more about the individual experiencing life as opposed to the couple....he will remain on the road hoping for a growing sense of understanding.....)

 Cast: Emile Freeman, Lesley Ligthelm VO: Tom O'Bedlam
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 Who would true valour see,
 Let him come hither;
 One here will constant be,
 Come wind, come weather

There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
Whoso beset him round With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.

No lion can him fright.
He’ll with a giant fight,
He will have a right
To be a pilgrim.

Hobgoblin nor foul fiend
Can daunt his spirit,
He knows he at the end
Shall life inherit.
Then fancies fly away,
He’ll fear not what men say,
He’ll labor night and day
To be a pilgrim.