CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
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Filmstock: Histories, Technologies, Aesthetics
With Alice Lovejoy and Pansy Duncan I am editing the first volume dedicated to the material history of film stock. I am also contributing a chapter titled ‘Celluloid Skin: The Racial Materialities of Film Stock’
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Europium
With Siobhan Angus I am exploring the ecological and political implications of the use of the rare earth element Europium in the manufacture of colour televisions
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Bombay Film Colour
With Ranjani Mazumdar (Co-I) and Poorvi Gaur (Network Co-Ordinator) I am the Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded Bombay Film Colour Research Network. We are researching Hindi cinema’s conversion to colour between the 1950s and 1980s.
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Lab Work
This project explores the industrial film processing laboratory as a site of geopolitical and aesthetic power. It seeks to reimagine the history of film within the history of print