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Screen Culture 2033: progress updates

Week 30: 18 – 24 June 2025

Learn more about how we recently brought the BFI National Archive’s Conservation Centre to life at BFI Southbank, our plans for a new research laboratory and our new ‘Object of the Week’ series.

Week 28: 4 – 10 June 2025

This week, watch the latest Inside the Archive video and learn about how the BFI National Archive collections are used in a range of projects at a BFI Research Showcase.

Week 27: 28 May – 3 June 2025

Learn more about the behind the scenes work that has enabled the BFI Film on Film Festival and how we’ve been testing a new digital preservation system.

Week 26: 21 – 27 May 2025

Learn how our data team have been updating Tom Cruise’s back catalogue and how the BFI Reuben Library can shed light on the premiere of the ‘Greatest Film of All Time’.

Week 24: 7 – 13 May 2025

Discover more about a project rethinking the role of senses in museums and the search for an Ealing legend in a 1940s cinema commercial

Week 23: 30 April – 6 May 2025

In this edition of the Inside the Archive blog learn more about how we accession materials to our collections and ‘feel the noize’ courtesy of Slade.

Week 22: 23 – 29 April 2025

In this special edition of the Inside the Archive blog we reflect on our recent adventures in Los Angeles, including the launch of BFI America and events at the TCM Classic Film Festival.

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