Join the BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG seminar with Professor Hidenori Watanave (University of Tokyo) to discuss digital colorization, memory, photography and film archives. Tuesday 10 March 2026 online Event outline and registration here: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ All welcome!

Seminar (online) Professor Hidenori Watanave, University of Tokyo will speak about digital archives, visualisation. ‘“Rebooting Memories”: creating “flow” and inheriting memories from colorized photographs.’ 7 – 8pm (Japan)/ 10 – 11am (UK) Tues 10 March 2026. Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social dived deep into @scan2screen.bsky.social‘ multispectral scanning and our film color research for this interview!

Liz Watkins has interviewed Barbara Flueckiger about Scan2Screen and the digitisation, digital analysis and exhibition of colour and film. See more on the BAFTSS Colour and Film blog: colourandfilm.com/2026/02/18/t... @baftss.bsky.social @colourfilms.bsky.social

Registration open! Women of Photography 24 hour Conference-a-thon 2026. 8th March International Women’s Day. I’ll be joining the amazing Joyce Campbell, Anne Nobel & Geoff Batchen to discuss photography &Antarctica. Convened by the brilliant Rose Teanby & Kris Belden Adams. womenofphoto.com

Published today: War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation (Bloomsbury) edited by Katy Parry and Mani King Sharpe including essays on the close up, drone vision, and the colourisation of archival film footage www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-faces...

Our latest illustrated #photohistory talk is now online. Based on Hilary Roberts' new book 'The Camera at War.' youtu.be/i4sMZhpuRCY?...

BAFTSS continues to run its Early Career Mentoring Scheme, which has been invaluable to helping ECRs in this increasingly precarious sector. This is a call for new mentors and mentees to take part in the scheme! For more info: www.baftss.org/early-career... #baftss #earlycareermentoringscheme

Deadline approaching for BAFTSS PGR Poster Showcase 2026: Friday 30th January 2026. It’d be fantastic to see posters from BAFTSS Colour & Film SIG’s PGR members! For further information and designs from previous years, see the BAFTSS website: www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s... @baftss.bsky.social

BAFTSS 2026 Publication Awards deadline: 5th December 2025: www.baftss.org/publication-... BAFTSS 2026 Practice Research Awards deadline: 5th December 2025: www.baftss.org/practice-sub... BAFTSS 2026 PGR Poster Showcase deadline: 31st January 2026: www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s...

The BAFTSS Conference 2026 deadline: Fri 5th December 2025. Full BAFTSS 2026 CFP: www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html If you would like to organise or participate in the BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG panel, please get in touch: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG

This V&A one-day conference is devoted to the Lumiere company's Autochrome, an early C20 colour technology that yielded fragile but luminous three-colour glass transparencies. Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation

Recording: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding (MIT 2025) book launch & seminar is online! Thanks to the amazing authors & presenters @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social @atambersweat.bsky.social Aileen Robinson & Carolyn L Kane! @mitpress.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social youtu.be/ZmPnT676GMc

Join the seminar & book launch (online): Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025 Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ Registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon.... @baftss.bsky.social

Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 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/

Book Launch! 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? Registration: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @baftss.bsky.social

Looking forward to reading ‘Color Protocols’ which is to be published 30 September 2025 by @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social with @mitpress.bsky.social

Amazing posters for Hindi colour films at the V&A

Registration for the @bombayfilmcolour.bsky.social symposium is open! The symposium takes place on 23 June 2025. Find out more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bombay...

The Film Atlas is online! With film fragments and colour processes, film stocks and soundtracks - an open access resource supported by FIAF and the George Eastman Musuem www.filmatlas.com/explore

A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGh... Author Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, Nl), was joined by Joshua Yumibe (MSU) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews). Thanks to the speakers and all who joined us @baftss.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Day 3: the Colour Fantastic Revisited conference. Film archives & approaches to restoration. From Cine Arte de San Marcos, to Adeline Law’s amazing work on Dufaycolour in the Netherlands, Bin Li on differences in the Desmet method & a collaborative project on managing analogue film fading digitally

Day2: The Colour Fantastic Revisited at the EYE Filmmuseum: Li-Chen Kuo’s amazing presentation about the silver retention process for colour film in Tokyo film labs, followed by hand painted experimental films, and Kirsten Moana Thompson on colour lighting in Disney’s nighttime entertainments.

The Colour Fantastic Revisited: EYE Filmmuseum, Joshua Yumibe and Sarah Street speaking about the work of Steve McQueen & John Akomfrah. Joined by Kirsten Mairead Gill and Allyson Nadia Field on films by Edward Owen and Crystal Z Campbell www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...

EYE International Film Conference 2025. The Colour Fantastic Revisited. The ethics of colourisation, global film , Bombay Film Color, and Mieke Bal’s lecture on colour as moving matter in installation and video art.

Registration open: Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, Archives. 25-28 May 2025. The event is organised by EYE Film Museum, Universities of Amsterdam & Utrecht with Colour in Film (Colour Group GB &HTW Berlin) www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme... @baftss.bsky.social

This week (3pm-4:15pm Friday 23 May 2025. online) we invite you to join Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, NL), Josh Yumibe (Michigan State) and Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews) to discuss Feeling Colour and film. Full details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/ All welcome. @baftss.bsky.social

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

FIAF 2025 Symposium ‘Film Archives Beget Films’ has begun. More information about the programme and exhibitors is online. www.cinematheque.qc.ca/en/fiaf-2025... great to have the opportunity to present online

My latest article arising from the STUDIOTEC project on the dangers of working in film studios. It's Open Access so read for free! doi.org/10.1080/0143...

Global Film Color explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Japan, and Russia, and across Europe and Africa. Get 30% off selected Film & TV titles: ow.ly/inAZ50VkOwA @rutgersupress.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social #BAFTSS2025

OUT NOW: Feeling Colour by Bregt Lameris! Explore how midcentury cinema's vibrant colours reshaped sensory engagement, emotions & cultural perceptions. Blending media studies, biology & emotion theory, this book is perfect for film scholars & beyond! Discover here: buff.ly/FNZSMs4

Very excited to be a part of this special issue on colorization edited by @liziwat.bsky.social and Dominic Williams. My first time writing about AI and trying to grapple with the politics of color, ancestry databases and race, among other things. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Proud to be part of this fantastic special issue of Visual Studies: Colourised Histories, edited by @liziwat.bsky.social and Dominic Williams, bridging film and still photography to address questions of historical method, racialization, ethics, AI, and more. Thread 🧵 to introduce each article 🗃️📜📷📸🎥

Special issue of Colourised Histories is online. The authors analyse the implications of digitisation & colourisation on the interpretation, circulation & reception of photographic and film archives. See Visual Studies: Vol 40, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvst20/4...

Excited to read Kirsten Moana Thompson’s report from the 8th International Color in Film Conference in Bristol 2024 online. colourandfilm.com/2024/12/19/r...

CFP The Colour Fantastic Revisited. Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics and Archives. Eye Filmmuseum 25-28. May 2025. Deadline: 15th December 2024 www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...

Call for participants: BAFTSS Colour & Film SIG panel. 26-28 March 2025, University of Warwick, UK. Conference theme: ‘Global Aesthetics.’ SIG deadline: 6 Dec 2024 (final conference deadline 16 Dec 2024) Find out more : colourandfilm.com/cfps/