Week 17: 19-25 March 2025
This week learn more the National Lottery Open Week tour of the BFI National Archive’s Conservation Centre and a trip to meet the latest BFI Film Academy cohort.
Knowledge and Collections
Week 16: 12-18 March 2025
This week learn more about volunteering at the archive and our new editorial series, Rarities of British cinema.
Week 15: 5-11 March 2025
This week discover more about our Locarno Film Festival partnership, a new collection on BFI Replay and go behind the scenes as we film the Conservation Centre film lab.
Week 14: 26 February – 4 March 2025
This week read about what we got up to at the BFI Future Film Festival, how we’ve been updating our ‘death data’ and more.
Week 13: 19-25 February 2025
In this special edition of the blog we reflect on the Archiving in the Age of (Super) Abundance symposium, which took place at BFI Southbank (and online) on 13 February.
Week 12: 12-18 February 2025
This week learn more about how you can help us collect online moving image and the student placements we have in the curatorial team.
Week 11: 5-11 February 2025
This week read about a group of volunteers that visited the archive, our event for cinephile sleuths, and how we’re developing opportunities for traineeships in the Conservation Centre.
Week 10: 29 January – 4 February 2025
Learn more about how the archive was involved in a project exploring how to connect collections from across the UK and how you can tune into our event, Archiving in the Age of (Super) Abundance.
Week 9: 22-28 January 2025
Learn more about how our Special Collections team are shining a spotlight on unsung script supervisors and how our Documentation team are marking a new milestone in the use of AI technology.
Week 8: 15-21 January 2025
Learn more about Douglas Slocombe’s home movies and how the archive uses 3D printers in our latest blog.