Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE)
Edificio Tabakalera · Andre zigarrogileak plaza, 1
20012 Donostia / San Sebastián
SPAIN
T. +34 943 545 005
info@zine-eskola.eus
Info & Admissions:
www.zine-eskola.eus/en
Language: Spanish, English
Individual Contacts:
Carlos Muguiro
Academic direction
carlos@zine-eskola.eus
Arrate Velasco
Managing direction
arrate@zine-eskola.eus
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola is an international center for thinking, research, experimental practice, and pedagogical innovation centered on the past, present, and future of cinema.
Created and financed by Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and affiliated to the UPV/EHU, 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 can produce new (working, conceptual, creative, professional) realities on film.
EQZE is taking shape based on the fields of knowledge of the three agents involved in its conceptualisation: the Basque Film Archive, San Sebastian International Film Festival, and the Tabakalera cultural project.
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola's educational project is concretised in three programs: Film Preservation Studies, Film Curating Studies and Filmmaking Studies. Specifically, The postgraduate in Film Preservation Studies forces students to confront the (theoretical, technical and ethical) dilemmas generated by film as part of our tangible and intangible heritage
The course addresses all aspects linked to the identification of images and sounds in photochemical, magnetic, and digital format and also deals with the tools required for managing existing collections and creating new ones.
It introduces students to audiovisual material review, preservation, and restoration protocols and procedures through mechanical and digital tools, enabling them to gain real practical experience in the lab.
The Film Preservation Studies course is constantly in dialogue with the work carried out by the Basque Film Archives, which enables students to experience first-hand what it is like to work in an FIAF-approved film archive.
