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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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.
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
and Luke McKernan has written about the Film Atlas in ‘Every Format, Everywhere, all at Once’ lukemckernan.com/2025/06/07/…
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
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
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
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
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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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
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
Bregt Lameris’ amazing new book Feeling Colour is available via OpenBook Publishers. openbookpublishers.com/books… @BAFTSSColorFilm
Hear Bregt discussing work on Teaching Colour here m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9qbX…
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
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
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Colour Society of Australia is pleased to announce our 2025 national conference in Sydney next Oct 31 - Nov 2. The conference will be hybrid with in-person and online presenters and attendees. Our Call for Abstracts is at:
coloursociety.org.au/event-5…
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
... will appear very soon on the website of the ISCC/AIC Colour Literacy Project, an international initiative “to provide state-of-the-art educational resources that strengthen the bridges between the sciences, arts, design and humanities” at colourliteracy.org/
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
This video describes an exercise I find useful to introduce 3 important kinds of colours: colours perceived as belonging to objects themselves, to the light falling on objects, and to the light reaching our eyes from objects. Many more colour exercises ...
youtu.be/io_BmMWAhqk
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
A reminder that the deadline for the next wave of Quarterly Travel Fund Bursary applications is September 1st!
More info, and to apply: baftss.org/quarterly-travel-…
@baftss
#baftss #funding #pgr #bursary #postgraduate
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
research at the Imperial War Museum this week & a chance to see colourised photographs in the First World War gallery. Fantastic to have met Jordan Lloyd of Unseen Histories to discuss these colourisations, the Tutankhamun archive and more! @unseenhistories
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Good to present research with L MacDonald (UCL) at EVA 2024. Analysing the effects of acetylene gas light on the perception of colour in Edward Wilson’s watercolours on Scott’s Discovery 1901-04 & Terra Nova 1910-13 expeditions. Conference proceedings on
scienceopen.com/hosted-docum…
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
From the study of colour on the 1920s incursion into Tutankhamun’s tomb, its representation in Carter's lantern slide lectures, to digital colourisations now. Part of my Sloan Fellowship in Photography at the amazing Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
Very happy to have Liz here with us researching the collection!
Researching in the Griffith Institute’s Tutankhamun archive today for my fellowship on colour& the effect of digital colourisation on hierarchies of information in black&white photographs. & reading Christina Riggs’ amazing Photographing Tutankhamun again! griffith.ox.ac.uk
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
Researching in the Griffith Institute’s Tutankhamun archive today for my fellowship on colour& the effect of digital colourisation on hierarchies of information in black&white photographs. & reading Christina Riggs’ amazing Photographing Tutankhamun again! griffith.ox.ac.uk
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
British Academy’s Report on Media, Screen, Journalism & Communications published today, recognising the “profound impact” of our disciplines & contribution to UK cultural industries.
Grateful to have worked part of the Advisory Group for @baftss @baftsspg
with @billyerrington
A new British Academy report has found Media, Screen, Journalism and Communication Studies subjects remain popular among higher education students, though more are increasingly drawn to Russell Group and London institutions:thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news…
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
Online book launch of Global Film Color, the Monopack Revolution at Midcentury (Rutgers University Press, 2024) at 15:00-16:30 (London) Thursday 13th June 2024! Full details and how to register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Colour and Film BAFTSS SIG retweeted
Join the discussion on colour, trauma & representation at the Colour Spectacle in Trauma Narrative Across Genres. Symposium (hybrid Newcastle University) 9am-7pm. 4th June 2024 @BAFTSSColorFilm @baftss @baftsspg
Programme & Zoom: memorystudiesassociation.org… convenor Alya Leygeda
