Running time	11.45’
Completion	2019
Production	Fazzi Film
Location	Spain

RIFUGIO DEI VIANDANTI /
SANCTUARY OF THE WAYFARERS

December 2017, Spain. The wind sways the pines and the horses’ pond is full when Sam embarks on an ambitious new work. I have the feeling it will take some time. Following his process from beginning to completion, I also turn my camera towards the plateau where we have settled, 532 m altitude in Aragón. As winter becomes summer and the glinting work evolves, Sam tells me it contains our old house in Italy, the essence of that sanctuary carried with him across Europe, like an icon. Yet I can see it also contains all that is compelling of here, this new-to-us but ancient land of mountains, paths and rivers where I am standing with the horses and my camera tonight.