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EQZE students will play a key role in the annual EYE Filmmuseum conference
Under the title ‘The Colour Fantastic Revisited. Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, and Archives’, this year’s conference will take a fresh look at a key topic of study in the history of the meeting: colour in film. The aim of the conference, which revisits this year the same topic it analysed in the very first year it was held, is to explore current challenges in this field.
From 25 to 28 May, Amsterdam will host the tenth Eye International Conference, an event organised by the Eye Filmmuseum, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht. Under the title ‘The Colour Fantastic Revisited. Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, and Archives’, this year’s conference will take a fresh look at a key topic of study in the history of the meeting: colour in film. The aim of the conference, which revisits this year the same topic it analysed in the very first year it was held, is to explore current challenges in this field from both an academic and professional standpoint.
Inés Vázquez and Mariana Torres, Film Curating and Film Preservation Studies students from the 2022-2023 intake year, will present ‘Beyond Obsolescence: A Review of Colour Experiments through the Cantrills Filmnotes’, a study focused on the work of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. They pioneered the exploration of different techniques linked to colour management in experimental film. Their ideas and research were disseminated in the publication Cantrills Filmnotes, which is now the starting point for exploring the preservation and distribution of experimental films.
Muriel Holguín, a Film Preservation Studies student from the same intake year, will participate in a roundtable entitled ‘Archival Challenges in Restoring Colour in Amateur Small-Gauge Film’ and organised by Laura Batitucci, a restorer working at the Portuguese Film Archives. The discussion will focus on the technical and creative processes involved in accessing and preserving these materials and the ethical challenges this work poses. The research project carried out by Holguín ("Archivo de Animación Peruana") is linked to animation films made in Peru in 1972 and 1992.
For their part, the Archivistas Salvajes group, made up of Lucía Malandro, Josué Gómez, Fabio Quintero and Daniel Saucedo, all students at EQZE during the 2022-2023 and 2024-2025 academic years, will participate in a session dedicated to the presentation of technical panels. ‘Phantom of Colour: Aesthetics of Scarcity in Cuban Amateur Cinema’ explores the aesthetic and technical use of colour in amateur Cuban cinema, spotlighting a selection of films that reveal how technical limitations gave rise to innovative visual expressions.
Every year, the Eye International Conference brings together academics, archivists, curators, filmmakers, students, artists and film enthusiasts from all over the world, who come to Amsterdam to discuss and exchange ideas about the current challenges facing our audiovisual heritage.