CURATED CREATOR

Pedro Mota

Pedro Mota’s motorcycle travel follows the open road across distant countries, with a Honda Transalp as the stated companion for a journey around the world. His films place the ride alongside encounters with unfamiliar places, local riders and the histories encountered along the way.

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About the creator

Mota presents travel as a life lived on the road, moving through lands he describes as strange, distant and marvelous. The available films trace journeys through Poland, Germany and the Baltic states, as well as a change of scene to India. Motorcycles are both the means of travel and a point of connection: in India, the episodes include rides on local machines and a rider showing him around Goa. Across the European material, the road brings him to border areas, abandoned military sites and places marked by Soviet history. This range gives the work a grounded travel-documentary frame, balancing the practical passage between destinations with curiosity about what lies beside the route.

What to expect

Expect motorcycle journeys shaped by changing terrain, weather and circumstance rather than a single kind of destination. The films move from long-distance riding and border crossings to detours involving historic sites, protests and encounters with other riders. Some episodes focus on the motorcycle itself; others pause the ride to explore a place or take in a local perspective. India’s city rides and the roads of northern and eastern Europe offer contrasting settings, while the recurring thread is travel by motorcycle and the uncertainty of what the route will bring. For viewers drawn to documentary journeys that connect road experience with regional context, Mota’s work offers an ongoing record of life in motion.