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‘The Witchery of [colour] Kodakery’ and British women amateur filmmakers in late colonial period
By Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes One of the significant visual components of British colonial culture is represented by amateur film practice, which until recently has been largely neglected in terms of its historic relevance in the construction of British imperial identity. The study of British colonial amateur films offers reliable counter-narratives to the conventional, official and […]
A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR FOR INTERNATIONAL COLOUR DAY
By Sarah Street To celebrate International Colour Day (21stMarch) I’ve picked a film from the period covered by our project that celebrates colour in no uncertain terms. The Beatles’ film Magical Mystery Tour (1967) is brimming with colour interest as the purest expression of their fascination with experimental visual techniques and counter-cultural expression. After its […]
International Colour in Film Conference Report 25th-27th February 2019
The Fourth International ‘Colour in Film’ Conference took place at the BFI Southbank on the 25th– 27th February 2019. The conference has been increasing in scope and scale since its initiation in 2016 with a truly global audience of academics, archivists and specialists in film colour. Full credit to the Colour Group (GB), HTW Berlin […]
Global Colour and the Moving Image: Call for Papers
Global Colour and the Moving Image: Call for Papers Conference, University of Bristol, 10-12 July 2019 Keynote speakers: Professor Barbara Flueckiger, University of Zurich Professor Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University Ten years on from the Colour and the Moving Image conference in Bristol, the study of film colour has grown impressively. While the majority of […]
The Beauty Jungle: Saturation Without Depth
by Professor Sarah Street (PI). Colour was used for a number of affective purposes in films covered by the Eastmancolor project’s timeline. As Richard Farmer’s blog post of 18 January 2018 notes, colour’s increasing ubiquity in advertising attracted a multitude of arresting designs, from vibrant newspaper supplements and TV commercials to Lulu’s amazing ‘Happy Shoes’ […]
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