Ainhoa Gutiérrez del Pozo
Writer-director
Basque Country, Spain
Ainhoa Gutiérrez del Pozo (San Sebastian, 1994) is a filmmaker and researcher. She graduated in Fine Arts in the University of the Basque Country, and completed her Master’s degree at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires.
She has worked with other artists on pieces that blend contemporary art with the rural world, and her film work focuses on this interplay. Her first short film, MEDVEDEK (2019), was shown in several festivals around the world. She is in 2023 in the post- production phase of her first feature film, SOMEWHAT WILD, co-directed with the visual anthropologist Olatz González Abrisketa. She has taken part in conferences and round tables on film at Art Centers like Artium or Tabakalera, as well as in the Université Paris Panthéon- Sorbonne. She is working on her PhD in science fiction and hydroelectric power stations.
Project
Abaño, 2086
In the future, energy is running out. It is winter 2086. The world has collapsed, and there is hardly any electricity left anywhere on earth. Akuario (38) lives alone in an abandoned hydroelectric power station, and she has a plan: for the bees to outlive humanity. She uses what is left of the electric power on the wellbeing of the beehives and also to overcome the loneliness and anxiety that the end of the world has generated in her.
One day, coming down the road that runs parallel to the red river, Sașa (34) arrives in Abaño in an electric blue car. They fall in love, but soon an argument breaks out: Sașa knows that the electricity generated by the power plant could power her return trip to Bucharest, while it has been years since Akuario exploited the river for his own benefit.
Ethics, love and science fiction in times of apocalypse.
