AZTARNAK: Kukuaren kanta (Inhabitants of Lerga, 2025) + The Last Angel of History (Black Audio Film Collective, 1996)

Kukuaren kanta (Inhabitants of Lerga, 2025)

Thirty-one people are credited on the short film Kukuaren kanta. The vast majority live in Lerga, a small village in the mixed zone of Navarre. In the autumn of 2023, Navarrese filmmakers and producers Ione Atenea, Garazi Erburu, and Marina Lameiro — as part of the Zinema Auzolanean project — invited the residents of the village to create a collective filmic self-portrait of their community, through filmmaking workshops and participatory assemblies, with the rotation of technical and artistic roles throughout the shoot. Armed with a Bolex, the inhabitants of Lerga chose, in Kukuaren kanta, to speculate about the end of the world and, while awaiting it, to live — attentively and without urgency — the everyday rhythms of their rituals, work, and celebrations.

The Last Angel of History (Black Audio Film Collective, 1996)

Coming from the 22nd century, the Data Thief gathers testimonies from key figures in funk cyberculture, Afrofuturist theory, and dystopian science fiction —from George Clinton and Derrick May to Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany— in search of the key to his future. The Last Angel of History, according to its creators, is "a journey from the margins to the interstellar heart of Black culture".

The film is one of the final works of the Black Audio Film Collective, a British collective founded in 1982 by seven students at Portsmouth Polytechnic from families with roots in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, and Trinidad and Tobago. Filmmakers, sound artists, activists, and sociologists, the group's members updated the revolutionary language of Third Cinema by building an audiovisual form for the diaspora. In the context of the rise of neofascism and racist police brutality, and with Stuart Hall as a key reference, they reflected on memory, sociocultural oppression, and political struggle.

AZTARNAK is a program organized by the Film Curating Studies students of the 2025-2026 Academic Year at EQZE.