Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG

This is a replacement account for the original BAFTSS Colour SIG Twitter account @BAFTSSColourSIG. Unfortunately we've lost access to old account.

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.uk/stories/seeing… Photos reproduced with permission of the Griffith Institute.

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/notesoncolour/

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/

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…

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/response…

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/

and Luke McKernan has written about the Film Atlas in ‘Every Format, Everywhere, all at Once’ lukemckernan.com/2025/06/07/eve…

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

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

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/e… @baftss

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

For further details see BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG colourandfilm.com/cfps/

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.

Book launch! Bregt Lameris Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s(Open Books, 2025) doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0… ... Date: 3:00-4:15 (online) 23 May 2025 Register: forms.office.com/e/jdizRhZ4U7 Bregt will be in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson & Josh Yumibe

Bregt Lameris’ amazing new book Feeling Colour is available via OpenBook Publishers. openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647… @BAFTSSColorFilm Hear Bregt discussing work on Teaching Colour here m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9qbX…

We are currently supporting members facing redundancy at Technicolor following the devastating news that the historic VFX studio is now in administration🧵

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/rvst20/40/1 @baftss @BAFTSSColorFilm

Excited to see Kirsten Moana Thompson’s report from the 8th International Color in Film Conference in Bristol 2024 online. Read more: colourandfilm.com/2024/12/19/rep… @baftss @baftsspg