Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
Lisbon-born Filipa Ramos is a writer and editor based in London, where she works as Editor in Chief of art agenda, an international editorial project and archive that publishes experimental writing on art. Interested in the relationships between contemporary art and cinema, her research focuses on how artists' films, videos and installations address environmental and ecological topics and foster interspecies relationships across humans, non-humans and machines.
Ramos is a Lecturer in the Experimental Film MA programme of Kingston University and in the MRes Art: Moving Image of Central Saint Martins, both in London. She is also a member of the teaching team of the Elías Querejeta Zine-Eskola in San Sebastian and regularly collaborates with the Master Programme of the Institut Kunst, Basel.
Ramos is a founding curator of Vdrome, a programme of screenings of films by visual artists and filmmakers. In the past she was Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal and contributed for Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). Her writing on art, film and animals has been published in several international magazines and catalogues. She has recently edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press).