Week 21: 16-22 April 2025
Learn more about the second edition of the BFI Film on Film Festival, works that have been added to the UNESCO Memory of the World register and vital equipment being used by our film scanning team.
Knowledge and Collections
Week 20: 9-15 April 2025
This week learn more about the recent panel discussion, Queer Lives in the Archives, and a new acquisition to the BFI National Archive.
Week 19: 2-8 April 2025
This week explore ASMR at the BFI National Archive’s Conservation Centre, an update about traineeships and a breakdown of some of the 2025 Charity Film Awards submissions.
Week 18: 26 March – 1 April 2025
This week learn more about the Nottingham launch of BFI Replay and a new network for born-digital film-related materials.
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.
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.