EQZE | Film Curating Studies

Deadline: February 28, 2023

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

The postgraduate in Film Curating Studies aims to define the specific characteristics of film curating, a field with a bright future whose own epistemology nevertheless still needs to be identified and developed.

The course focuses on the large body of theoretical knowledge (partly inherited from the plastic arts) and explores different programming traditions and schools. In addition to the study and critical review of these movements, the course also encourages students to rethink the film distribution and access conditions and formulas in a new (and uncertain) turning point for the traditional exhibition model, which has been called into question by the rise of streaming platforms and the gradual disappearance of movie theatres.

As well as cultivating each participant’s unique criterion and outlook, the course also provides the tools necessary for the complete development of film projects, from initial conception to final execution. The specialist course also strives to encourage budding curators to engage in research work, to explore the worlds of film criticism and essay writing and to engage in various academic activities. We believe that all curatorial work requires prior research, and that this research should be as rigorous and profound as that carried out in the academic world, the only difference being that, in this case, the work carried out leads to a public project (an exhibition, catalogue, programme, festival, etc.) rather than a scientific text.

One of the fundamental traits of this course is that it maintains constant professional and teaching contact with the institutions that support and generate it. Students can work on a wide range of different curatorial projects, including those proposed by Tabakalera and the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Coordinator: Eva Sangiorgi

Artistic director of the Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival, since 2018, Eva Sangiorgi graduated in Communication Sciences from the University of Bologna, before moving to Mexico City, where she earned a Master’s in Art History. She has extensive experience as a programmer in several different Latin American festivals, particularly in Mexico, where she lived for sixteen years. It was there that she founded FICUNAM, an event dedicated to art house cinema and the promotion of political and investigative film, which she directed until 2018. She has also sat on numerous juries at many different international festivals, including La Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, the Venice Festival, FIDMarseille and the Jeonju International Film Festival, and has participated in many film project analysis and development committees. In the editorial field, she has coordinated and edited several publications focusing on contemporary cinema at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) and has written essays and texts for various festival catalogues and film magazines. In addition to participating as a lecturer and a tutor for ongoing student projects at the EQZE, Eva Sangiorgi has also taught at several other universities in Latin America and Europe.

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