The AZTARNAK cycle champions collective creation in its second block

"Notes for Composing a Collective Future" is the title of the second film block of the AZTARNAK cycle, organised by students of the Film Curating Studies programme at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola.

The second part of the cycle, which launched in February, turns its gaze towards works that move away from authorship understood in its most singular sense, to explore forms of collective creation. In this spirit, "Notes for Composing a Collective Future" brings together four films born of shared demands and the crossing of gestures and perspectives. A cinema that emerges from the union and resistance of people who imagine and struggle together.

The block gathers four works signed by collectives from different eras and geographies. It opens with Sanrizuka: Heta Buraku-no Hitobito (Ogawa Productions, Japan, 1971), which documents the peasant struggle against the construction of Narita Airport; continues with Nightcleaners (Berwick Street Collective, United Kingdom, 1975), a portrait of female night-cleaning workers in London and their attempt to unionise; and closes with two films: Kukuaren kanta (Inhabitants of Lerga, Basque Country, 2025), the filmic self-portrait of a small Navarrese village and its community, and The Last Angel of History (Black Audio Film Collective, United Kingdom, 1996), an Afrofuturist exploration connecting science fiction, funk cyberculture and the African diaspora.

Screenings are free to attend until capacity is reached, and will take place in the EQZE cinema, located on the ground floor of the Tabakalera building, on Sundays 10 May, 7 June and 5 July at 17:00. After each session, the room adjacent to the cinema will become an experimentation laboratory where the audience will be invited to participate in the creation of a collective work.

AZTARNAK proposes cinema as a space for exploration — a way of imagining possible futures through the traces and signals that run through our present. It is an initiative conceived and developed entirely by the students of EQZE's eighth Curatorship cohort, the result of a shared working process.

Program

10 May / 17:00 (EQZE Zinema)

Sanrizuka: Heta Buraku-no Hitobito (Ogawa Productions, 1971, 143 min., Japan, OV/ST)

7 June / 17:00 (EQZE Zinema)

Nightcleaners (Berwick Street Collective, 1975, 90 min., United Kingdom, OV/ST)

 5 July / 17:00 (EQZE Zinema)

Kukuaren kanta (Inhabitants of Lerga, 2025, 30 min., Basque Country, OV/ST)

The Last Angel of History (Black Audio Film Collective, 1996, 45 min., United Kingdom, OV/ST)