Ainhoa Gutiérrez del Pozo
A researcher at the University of the Basque Country and a filmmaker, she holds a degree in Fine Arts and completed a Master’s in Documentary Filmmaking at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, as well as the Territory module at the Huarte Contemporary Art Centre (Navarre). She became involved in visual anthropology several years ago and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. on the process of constructing a science fiction film within a hydroelectric power plant. Her first work, Medvedek (2019), was selected for the Kimuak catalogue of the best Basque short films and screened at several international festivals.
She is currently completing her first feature-length film, co-directed with Olatz González Abrisketa, Pizti bat agian (Perhaps a Beast, in post-production), a work situated between fiction and documentary that focuses on the relationship between humans and large mammals along the borders of the Basque Country. In addition, she collaborates with other artists on projects that interrelate contemporary art and the rural world. In 2021, she participated in the audiovisual piece Liluraren Kontra, directed by Arantza Santesteban as part of the Landarte program, and together with Eli Pagola she produced the exhibition Ta argiya iñ zan (2023), which revolves around the hydroelectric power plants of the Urumea Valley.