Description: 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
Tabakalera · Andre zigarrogileak plaza, 1 20012 Donostia / San Sebastián T. 0034 943 545 005 E. [email protected] The school of the three tenses of cinema 01 A film research centre 02 A community of filmmakers 03 The house of cinema 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 and affiliated to the UPV/EHU, El
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 centre are not teaching institutions but film institutions. This is why the school that they are promoting is also basic
Due to its genealogical and circular view of history and the film and audiovisual tradition, as well as its unique academic approach, EQZE defines itself as the ‘school of the three tenses of cinema’. The unique nature of its origins and location, its idea of cinema and its teaching project make this centre an exceptional case internationally, which doesn’t prevent it, for the same reasons, from aspiring to become an aesthetic and professional laboratory for Basque cinema.