Hypothesis 2025 (Second 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. 

PROGRAM

10:15-11:00

Al debalu

Carmen Alonso Álvarez

RESEARCH PROJECT

Research into the audiovisual heritage of Asturias and its preservation.

11:00-11:45

Obsolete

Saro Vallejo

FILM

Global AGI has concluded that it has reached the point of obsolescence. It will delete itself and shut down forever, radically transforming the world. Its inhabitants struggle to cope with the sudden loss of the all-encompassing machine. Caught within the glitches of shutdown, they experience the final contemplations of the dying machine.

12:15-13:00

Un árbol para Mónica

Alejandra Larrea Galarza

PRESERVATION PROJECT

The project proposes a plan to preserve and publicize the films of the Ecuadorian filmmaker Mónica Vásquez. Through meetings, letters and access to her personal archive, I explore different ways to restore her work.

13:00-13:45

High

Daniel Alegrete

FILM

A journey through a seemingly endless night at El High, the first gay club in the Basque Country, in which the ghosts and desires of all those who once crossed its threshold converge. 

15:00-15:45

Norma Bengell, Delphine Seyrig e Inês Etienne Romeu

Amanda Soares

RESTORATION PROJECT

Restoration and research project focusing on the video Inês (1974). The appropriation of portable video by women. The place of video in the canon of moving images and its dialogue with experimental cinema. A reflection on the restoration of low-resolution images. 

15:45-16:30

Un retrato imaginario de Touria Hassan

Sara Médiouni

MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT

‘Un retrato imaginario de Touria Hassan’ (An imaginary portrait of Touria Hassan) is an attempt to piece together a fragmented portrait of one of Morocco's first theatre actresses. Based on interviews, archives from the cultural magazine Al Anis, which was published in Tetouan between 1947 and 1952, and speculative writing, this project is conceived as a dossier of imaginary archives dedicated to Hassan.

17:00-17:45

La voz prolongada. Desarrollo de una metodología de restauración digital

Jorge Fernández Jaramillo

RESTORATION PROJECT

‘La voz prolongada’ (The prolonged voice) develops a methodology for digitally restoring the Costa Rican documentary A propósito de la mujer (1975). The methodology integrates technical, ethical and research criteria. Focusing on the first film directed by a woman in Costa Rica, the same woman who also founded the Film Department, the project proposes a methodology for approaching the restoration of state cinema which, under the slogan ‘Giving voice to those who have none’, financed its own self-criticism.

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.