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/