Hypothesis 2025 (First day)

"The Time of Hypotheses" is the event in which the Master's students of the three specialties of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola —Film Archive Studies, Film Curating Studies and Filmmaking Studies— exhibit the works they have developed throughout the course.  

These proposals, projects (mostly incomplete and ongoing), take diverse forms: plans and actions for the restoration and preservation of audiovisual heritage, research projects, editorial and film programming proposals, exhibitions and installations, films in development, as well as all the works completed throughout the course.

This program approaches cinema from all fields and prefigures dozens of paths, ranging from the academic to the creative, to explore the geography and history of cinema. All the paths of cinema in two weeks. 

PROGRAMA

10:15-10:30

Welcome

10:30-11:15

Desde la ausencia

Ana Karina de Fátima Barandiarán Urday

PRESERVATION PROJECT  

‘Desde la ausencia’ (From absence) was prompted by the lack of a film library in Peru and explores, from the perspective of territory and practice, how to preserve cinema with the resources we have. It proposes Arequipa as a possible (and politically sensitive) location for preserving our audiovisual memory. In this collective search, we come to understand that we ourselves are the film library. 

11:15-12:00

Fratura

Maura Castanheira Grimaldi

FILM

In the city of São Paulo, geologist Susana begins visiting the nursing home where Roberta, a retired architect diagnosed with Alzheimer's, lives. Over the course of a day's visit, the stories of this past love are reconstructed, intertwining fragments of both women's lives in different parts of the metropolis. 

12:30-13:15

Amores frustrados. Memoria familiar y preservación de una película amateur en 9,5 mm

Ester Borràs Sabaté

PRESERVATION PROJECT

The project stems from an exploration of my personal film collection, which I purchased from antique dealers. Among them is Amores Frustrados (Francisco Roca, 1934), an amateur 9.5 mm film shot in Reus, whose director has remained unknown until now. Audiovisual preservation involves the process of researching, digitising and digitally processing the original reversible camera material. 

13:15-13:45

Inventario de ausencias

Fabio Miguel Quintero Pérez

PRESENTATION

This exhibition is based on the archive ‘Los subterráneos’, which comprises films and recovered materials of Cuban amateur cinema—a field that is almost invisible in Cuban film narratives. Films made by film clubs and communities that were marginalised and condemned to oblivion. We propose to inhabit the space between loss and survival, where even the smallest fragments and records enable us to glimpse another possible history. 

15:00-15:45

Mirar a los dioses 

José Nicolás Gaitán Sierra

FILM

With the impossibility of filming the military school where I was punished, Hell begins: looking from the outside at what can no longer be inhabited. From confinement, I move to Purgatory, where on the streets of Bogotá I invite strangers to repeat the military poses from my father's photographs. Finally, Paradise: a children's casting where each child plays the sun.

15:45-16:30 

Archivo, soplo y acción

Evelyn Ruiz Gómez

RESEARCH PROJECT

‘Archivo, soplo y acción’ (Archive, breath and action) frames a series of proposals for the preservation and activation of a university audiovisual archive. At the same time, it opens the door to analysing the archive as both memory and institution, from the perspective of accidental archival practice and the emotions this entails. 

17:00-17:50

Techniscope: "Made in Euskadi". El caso de Ornis Films

Pablo Retuerta Nogales

RESEARCH PROJECT

Theoretical and practical texts focus on the study of Techniscope in Spain, within the context of nature documentaries produced in the Basque Country and by the San Sebastian-based production company Ornis Films, which will serve as a starting point for a working protocol on Techniscope that film libraries and audiovisual archives worldwide can utilize. 

All presentations, screenings, and other activities will begin at the time indicated in the program. We kindly request maximum punctuality.

Out of respect for the participants, access to the space will not be permitted once a presentation has begun until it has concluded.

The program's content is subject to possible last-minute modifications.