BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group
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The BAFTSS Special Interest Group on Colour and Film, connecting scholars, filmmakers, archivists and film conservation specialists: http://colourandfilm.com
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Thanks @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social we’re looking forward to it [email protected]
first time working with the Colour Group (GB) for this event too.
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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).

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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 ðnicity are transformed into an industry standard?
Registration: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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Looking forward to reading ‘Color Protocols’ which is to be published 30 September 2025 by @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social with @mitpress.bsky.social
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Color Protocols is out from @mitpress.bsky.social on 9/30! If you have a US mailing address, you can use the discount codes below on orders placed through Penguin Random House:
a. MITP30: 30% off on publication day
b. READMIT20: 20% off at any time after publication.
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Amazing posters for Hindi colour films at the V&A
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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...
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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
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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
Book Launch: Bregt Lameris, Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture 1950s-1960s
YouTube video by Liz Watkins
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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
Eye International Conference 2025 | Eye Filmmuseum
The museum for film and the art of the moving image in The Netherlands. Visit the exhibition or cinema and discover our collection with more than 60.000 films.
www.eyefilm.nl
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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/

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Current events, calls and announcements for work on colour, film, tv, screen studies and cultures by and beyond the BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG. For updates follow @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social @B…
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Join Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, NL) in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson (University of St. Andrews) and 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.
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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)
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Global Film Color explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Japan, and Russia, and across Europe and Africa.

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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