BAFTSS Special Interest Group on Colour and Film, connecting scholars, filmmakers, archivists and film conservation specialists. @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social

Joined November 2022
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This is a replacement account for the original BAFTSS Colour SIG Twitter account @BAFTSSColourSIG. Unfortunately we've lost access to old account.
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Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
In 2023 we collaborated with the Griffith Institute for a 3-D presentation & they have just published “Seeing in Three Dimensions: Stereoscopic Images and the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive”: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.u… Photos reproduced with permission of the Griffith Institute.
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The interview discusses Scan2Screen, the curation of film & photographs for the Color in Motion exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and their new project with the BFI and SFPP on films by Len Lye.
An interview with Barbara Flueckiger about her work and most recently with @Scan2Screen with multispectral scans of colour, photography and film, their restoration and exhibition. See Baftss Colour & Film blog: colourandfilm.com/notesoncol…
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An interview with Barbara Flueckiger about her work and most recently with @Scan2Screen with multispectral scans of colour, photography and film, their restoration and exhibition. See Baftss Colour & Film blog: colourandfilm.com/notesoncol…
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Seminar (online) Prof. Hidenori Watanave, University of Tokyo will speak about digital archives, visualisation and “Rebooting Memories”: inheriting memories from colorized photographs.’ 7– 8pm (Japan)/ 10 – 11am (UK) 10 March 2026. Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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Recording: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding (MIT 2025) book launch & seminar is online! Thanks to the amazing authors & presenters Lida Zeitlin-Wu, Amber Sweat, Aileen Robinson & Carolyn L Kane! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmPnT6…
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Join us for the seminar & book launch (online) for Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thurs 30th October 2025 Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ Registration: forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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Event: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome! Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford). colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Event! Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media 16:00– 17:30(UK) 12:00 – 13:30(EST) 30th Oct 2025. What is at stake when categories like color, race &ethnicity are transformed into an industry standard? Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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Event! Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media 16:00– 17:30(UK) 12:00 – 13:30(EST) 30th Oct 2025. What is at stake when categories like color, race &ethnicity are transformed into an industry standard? Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
2 Jun 2025
The Film Atlas edited by James Layton and Crystal Kui is online. Amazing to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Tinting and Toning combinations used to colour black-and-white film stocks for this. filmatlas.com/entry/453
2 Jun 2025
The Film Atlas launched at the Nitrate Picture Show May 2025! An open access visual guide high res film fragments from motion picture film formats, soundtracks & color processes. Edited by James Layton &Crystal Kui for FIAF & the George Eastman Museum. filmatlas.com/explore
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Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
29 May 2025
A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGh-G… Author Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, Nl), was joined by Joshua Yumibe (MSU) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews). Thanks to the speakers and everyone who joined us
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Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
19 May 2025
Registration open: Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, Archives. 25-28 May2025. The event is organised by EYE Film Museum, Universities of Amsterdam & Utrecht with Colour in Film (Colour Group GB &HTW Berlin) eyefilm.nl/en/programme/eye-… @baftss
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This week (3pm-4:15pm Fri 23 May 2025. online) we invite you to join Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, NL), Josh Yumibe (Michigan State) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews) to discuss Feeling Colour & film. Full details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @baftss @baftsspg
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Book launch! Bregt Lameris Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s(Open Books, 2025) doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0380 ... Date: 3:00-4:15 (online) 23 May 2025 Register: forms.office.com/e/jdizRhZ4U… Bregt will be in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson & Josh Yumibe
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Join Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit) in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson (St. Andrews) & Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State University) to explore interdisciplinary perspectives on Feeling Colour and the different ways colour creates—or was believed to create—embodied reactions.
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For further details see BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
25 Feb 2025
We are currently supporting members facing redundancy at Technicolor following the devastating news that the historic VFX studio is now in administration🧵
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Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
19 Feb 2025
Colourised Histories is online! The journal issue explores: What is at stake in the digitisation & retrospective colourisation of black and white photography and film archives? tandfonline.com/toc/rvst20/4… @baftss @BAFTSSColorFilm
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