Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG

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

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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

[The Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy @BMAStereoscopy]

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”: https://t.co/rU3pumKsQ2
Photos reproduced with permission of the Griffith Institute.

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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.

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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: https://t.co/x56Gnjm5m2

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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: https://t.co/x56Gnjm5m2

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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: https://t.co/dBu9MP5cww

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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!
https://t.co/o1vknEeoYV

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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: https://t.co/B3fAgft41j

Registration: https://t.co/8LDEXidaBW

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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).

https://t.co/B3fAgfswbL

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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: https://t.co/B3fAgfswbL

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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: https://t.co/B3fAgfswbL

[Liz Watkins @liziwat]

and Luke McKernan has written about the Film Atlas in ‘Every Format, Everywhere, all at Once’ https://t.co/CVkiaZ8Nby

[Liz Watkins @liziwat]

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. https://t.co/aggWP2VdIO

[Liz Watkins @liziwat]

A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online https://t.co/VHHZG1Cwvf 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

[Liz Watkins @liziwat]

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) https://t.co/rNBUalDn8K @baftss

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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 https://t.co/B3fAgfswbL

@baftss @baftsspg

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

For further details see BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG https://t.co/dBu9MP5cww

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

Book launch! Bregt Lameris Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s(Open Books, 2025) https://t.co/e4j38QOQMT ...

Date: 3:00-4:15 (online) 23 May 2025

Register: https://t.co/MnEYbEYFlH

Bregt will be in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson & Josh Yumibe

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

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.

[Liz Watkins @liziwat]

Bregt Lameris’ amazing new book Feeling Colour is available via OpenBook Publishers. https://t.co/fCwyD9dEY4 @BAFTSSColorFilm
Hear Bregt discussing work on Teaching Colour here https://t.co/5d8oWHZ2Fr

[Bectu @bectu]

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

[Liz Watkins @liziwat]

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? https://t.co/BNnQQVjKU4
@baftss @BAFTSSColorFilm

[Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG @BAFTSSColorFilm]

Excited to see Kirsten Moana Thompson’s report from the 8th International Color in Film Conference in Bristol 2024 online. Read more:
https://t.co/z2FU6JPK0R @baftss @baftsspg