Next Thursday, 21 May at 10:30 pm, as part of Noite Lasal Cociñas, the Festival de Cans Music Video Competition will take place — a free-entry screening session bringing together 19 musical and audiovisual works by different Galician artists and filmmakers.
Directed by Einibó, the music video is built around collective celebration and the connection between music and community, creating a visual piece full of movement, colour and energy. The project accompanies Alana’s reinterpretation of the traditional muiñeira Vilardevós, developed from oral testimonies collected from the women of Terroso, and visually reinforces the natural coexistence between tradition and contemporaneity that defines the group’s musical project.
Filmed in A Coruña last February, the production featured the participation of the PAN.SEN.FRON collective, whose presence adds a communal and festive dimension to the video. The result is a piece that understands tradition not as something static, but as a living language capable of engaging with the present through new visual and sonic codes.
The official music video section of this 23rd edition of the Festival de Cans will bring together some of the most notable recent works in Galician music and audiovisual creation. Alongside Vilardevós, videos by artists and projects such as Fillas de Cassandra, De Ninghures together with Ortiga, Laura LaMontagne, Sabela with María Escarmiento, Rebeliom do Inframundo, Hydn, Jade4, and Karmento together with Mondra and El Nido, among others, will compete. The selection showcases the aesthetic and sonic diversity of the current scene, combining projects linked to traditional, electronic, pop, urban and experimental music.
This places the music video within a particularly significant context for contemporary Galician creation. Since its launch in 2004, the festival has become one of the most distinctive cultural gatherings on the Spanish cultural scene, transforming the village of Cans for several days into a space for audiovisual exhibition, music and community. With its spirit of “agroglamour”, the festival has established itself as a key platform for new voices in Galician cinema, music and contemporary creation.
Alana’s presence at this year’s edition will also extend beyond the official music video section. The group will perform live on Friday, 22 May at the Torreiro de Cans, one of the festival’s main venues, in a free-entry concert.
With this selection, Vilardevós continues to expand its trajectory as a project that connects roots, electronic music and collective identity, while also reaffirming Undodez’s commitment to supporting musical and audiovisual projects that explore new ways of storytelling from Galicia.