Do outro lado
Do outro lado is a scenic research project on environmentalism, community, and its breakdown in rural areas, which involves collaboration with the Memoria y Cine collective and the theater company Mevadeus.
The quarry that opened in the Traspielas mountains is the symbol from which they delve into the consequences that this wound has from the most personal to the most global level, reflecting on the concept of inhabiting in a broad sense, using the body and audiovisuals as tools. On the other hand, it explores how capitalism infiltrates the peasant class, unraveling the community and its self-sufficiency to turn these individuals into producers and consumers in the market, inviting us to reflect on our way of inhabiting the world today.
Fran Rodríguez & Brais Pombo
Fran Rodríguez's work focuses on the interaction between the body and the environment, using cinema, photography, and sound as mediums. He operates at the boundaries of artistic genres, with a notion of an expanded field of artistic practices in his interventions, employing everything from archival material to his own footage. Currently, he is working on his first feature film, "From Your Hand to Mine," alongside Coral Piñeiro and the production company Miramemira.
His works have been showcased in various events and festivals such as the Encontros da Imaxe, Festival Internacional de Fotografía e Artes Visuais en Braga (PT), Paisaxe_0 by Poligonal Colectivo at the Galería Metro, XIII Premio de artistas novos Auditorio de Galicia, and the Ffoco Festival in A Coruña. He participated in the X Encontro de Artistas Novos at Cidade da Cultura de Galicia, and in 2022, he received an artistic residency in the Aran Islands in Ireland to carry out a photographic project in the BirdSong archipelago, with support from Stills&Motion.
Brais Pombo was born in Fornelos de Montes (Pontevedra) in 1999. He is an actor, performer, and musician trained in gestural interpretation at the ESAD de Galicia and at the Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic.
His music project, Faíscas, won the first prize of Xuventude Crea de Música 2022. He is a member of the physical theater company Mevadeus, which won the first prize of Xuventude Crea de Teatro 2021 with the piece "Campo 5G." Additionally, with the production "#Outrora Nós," they won the third prize for Best Audience-Rated Show in the VigoCultura 2022 programming.
He completed a performer internship with the Belgian physical theater company Troubleyn Jan Fabre and was part of the cast of the show "When are we?" at Buran Teatr, Czech Republic. He also performed in the contemporary dance show "Masks" directed by choreographer Ursula Terzan.