EQZE | Film Curating Studies

Deadline: May 31, 2018

Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola is an international centre for thinking, research, experimental practice and pedagogical innovation based around the past, present and future of cinema.

Created and financed by Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola is opening in 2017 with a passionately regenerative spirit: its ultimate purpose is not to train technical staff by following traditional standardised training models, but to encourage the emergence of filmmakers with a comprehensive vision of cinema who are able to produce new (working, conceptual, creative, professional) realities on film.

EQZE is taking shape based on the fields of knowledge of the three agents that are taking part in its conceptualisation: the Basque Film Archive, San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Tabakalera cultural project. It is based in Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture where these institutions are also located.

The institutions involved in the development of the School are not teaching institutions but film institutions. This is why the School that they are promoting is also basically a film project: an idea of cinema that is taking shape as an educational project. This is the reason why the EQZE does not have a range of training programmes, but a single educational project made up of three postgraduate programmes: Film Preservation Studies, Film Curating Studies, Filmmaking Studies.

Film Curating Studies

Film Curating studies area aims to provide training in the conceptualisation, development, management and dissemination of all kinds of programmes in which cinema and the audio-visual arts play the leading role.

The Film Curating course aims to define the specific nature of this profession which has excellent future prospects, but still needs recognition of an epistemological corpus of its own. The speciality provides access to the entire torrent of theoretical knowledge, partly inherited from the plastic arts, which film curating is based on, as well as access to the various programming traditions and schools. As well as cultivating the particular criteria and vision of each participant, the course provides the tools to develop film projects (either black box or white box), from the conception to the implementation phase. The speciality fosters the work of the curator in relation to research, criticism, essays and the academic field. We understand there are no curator jobs that do not include a research aspect; research that is as rigorous and in-depth as that of the academic world, but which in this case it is realised in a public project (an exhibition, a catalogue, a programme, a festival…), rather than a scientific text.

One of the basic features of Curation studies is that is carried out in permanent contact with the professionals and teachers at the institutions that are responsible for this and who work in the same building on a wide variety of curatorial projects, such as Tabakalera, as the International Centre for Contemporary Culture, or the San Sebastián Film Festival.

Coordinator: María Palacios Cruz

María Palacios Cruz is a curator (Tate Britain, London; Union Docs, New York; Cinematek, Brussels; Impakt, Utrecht; Centre Pompidou, Paris…) and a teacher (School of Graphic Research & Royal Academy of Fine Arts, in Brussels, and Kingston University and Central Saint Martins, in London). She writes in publications and books about cinema and motion pictures and is the co-founder of the London publishing company, The Visible Press, specialising in this artistic discipline. She was in charge of the Courtisane Festival in Belgium and at the present time she is deputy director of LUX (based in London), one of the most important distributors of independent and experimental films in the world.

For more information and to apply, please visit: http://www.zine-eskola.eus/en/admision/2018-2019-course

EQZE | Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Tabakalera · Andre zigarrogileak plaza, 1
20012 Donostia / San Sebastián (Spain)
www.zine-eskola.eus 
info@zine-eskola.eus
(+34) 943 545 005