Cinema, akin to life, is a constant act of archiving
Conferences and Presentations
23rd June 2026
Digital Restoration and AI Interventions:
Comparative Parameter Studies and the Critical Role of Visual Literacy
Co-speaker
AI in Everyday Archival Practice: AI In Film Restoration, 2026 Workshop of the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE)
in partnership with the Technical Commission (TC) of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2026, Bologna
13th June 2026
International Co-productions in Early Indian Cinema:
J. F. Madan, Neglected Legacies and Contingent Material Traces
Speaker
Nineteenth International Domitor Conference, Niterói, 2026
(Dis)locating Early Cinema: Exchange, Extraction, Environment
Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema
20th May 2026
Between Canon and Counter-Archive: Subaltern Perspectives on Film Heritage Curation
Speaker
Between Canon and Criticism: Transformations of Cinematic Knowledge Production
Workshop der AG Filmwissenschaft der GfM & 25th NECS Graduate Workshop
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
21st-22nd October 2025
FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab
Participant
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin
in collaboration with SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Berlin
13th-14th October 2025
Co-speaker
Original Copies: Digital Tools for Preservation in Cinema and the Other Arts, Tornio, 2025
Original Copies, a Rita Levi Montalcini Project sponsored by Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca in collaboration with
Università degli Studi di Torino
24th June 2025
Co-panellist
Association des Cinémathèques Européennes - ACE Workshop on "How to Disseminate Heritage Cinema in a Changing Society?"
in partnership with the Programming and Access to Collections Commission (PACC) of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025, Bologna
18th-21st June 2025
"Curious Resurfacing of Lost Indian Film Heritage and their Historiographic Re-contextualisation: The Cases of BÉHULA (1921) and BADNAM BASTI (1971)"
Speaker
The NECS 2025 Conference, Lisbon
Discovering/Uncovering. Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
25th-28th May 2025
"The Colour Fantastic Revisited"
Member of the Advisory Panel
Eye International Conference 2025
The Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, and Archives
Eye Filmmuseum in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Utrecht University (UU) and Colour in Film (Colour Group GB & HTW Berlin), supported by Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) and Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
11th-13th November 2024
"History of Colorization"
Speaker and Co-organisor of the Conference
Eighth International Colour in Film Conference 2024, Bristol (UK)
TV, Video and Film
Elza Tantcheva-Burdge (Colour Group Britain); Ulrich Ruedel, Sreya Chatterjee (HTW Berlin); in collaboration with South West Silents
21st September 2024
"Lebende Farben – Lügende Farben: Von Azofarben zu AI"
Co-speaker
„Objekte, die lügen“ Conference
Conservation and Restoration Department
HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin in collaboration with KoReGt e.V.
19th September 2024
Introduction to the film restoration of BADNAM BASTI (1971)
Co-speaker
Archival Assembly #3
Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
26th-29th May 2024
"Engaging with AI Imaginary of Archival Moving Images:
Dialectics between Material Reality, Participatory Online Media Spheres and Apparatus Cultures"
Co-Panelist of Roundtable Discussion
Eye International Conference 2024
Presenting Audiovisual Collections: Experiments and Explorations
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) within the context of the project Narratives from the Long Tail: Transforming Access to Audiovisual Archives - a collaboration between Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), EPFL; Visual Intelligence for Transportation Laboratory (VITA), EPFL; Visualization and MultiMedia Laboratory (VMML), University of Zürich; and Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam (UvA)
16th-22nd March 2024
"Film Digitization: Present Status, Challenges and Potential"
Moderator of Panel Discussion
International Colloquium
ARCUREA 2024 - Archive, Curate, Restore
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, in collaboration with NFDC - NFAI National Film Archive of India, Pune and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
11th-13th December 2023
"The Underwater Worlds of Ufacolor"
Co-speaker and Co-organisor of the Conference
Seventh International Colour in Film Conference 2023, Vienna
Colour and Underwater Film
Elza Tantcheva-Burdge (Colour Group Britain); Nikolaus Wostry, Florian Wrobel, Oliver Bruck (Filmarchiv Austria); Ulrich Ruedel,
Sreya Chatterjee (HTW Berlin)
4th-7th June 2023
"Reinventing the Archive: Perspectives on the Changing Tides of Audiovisual Preservation in India"
Moderator and Co-Panelist of Roundtable Discussion
Eye International Conference 2023
Activating the Archive: Audiovisual Collections and Civic Engagement, Global Collaboration and Societal Change
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, in collaboration with Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), University of Amsterdam (UvA) &
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
7th-9th December 2022
"Envisioning the Future of Audio-visual Preservation in India"
Speaker
AMIA Conference 2022, Pittsburgh
The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
8th-9th December 2022
"Microscopic Investigations of Historical Film Colours"
Speaker
YOCOCU Conference 2022, Frankfurt am Main
Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (YOCOCU)
29th November 2022
"Agfacolor Chemistry and Restoration: Panorama Nr. 4"
Speaker
"Ringvorlesung" (lecture series)
Masters Programme, Conservation and Restoration Department
Faculty 5: Design and Culture
HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
25th-28th September 2022
"Agfacolor Negative-Positive Process in late 1930s and the Digital Restoration of “Panorama Nr. 4"
Speaker
Sixth International Conference Colour in Film, Bern, Switzerland
University of Zurich, Colour Group (GB), HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
21st-25th September 2022
"Natur und Mensch im deutschsprachigen Kulturfilm"
Co-panelist
Film Restored – Das Filmerbe-Festival
Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin
15th-16th September 2022
“A spectral approach to digitally restore a faded Agfacolor print from 1945”
Co-speaker
Second Edition of Colour Photography and Films, Florence, Italy
Sharing Knowledge of Analysis, Preservation, Conservation, Migration of Analogue and Digital Materials
Gruppo del Colore - Associazione Italiana Colore
7th-10th June 2022
“A spectral approach to digitally restore a faded Agfacolor print from 1945”
Co-speaker
Archiving 2022
State-of-the-art Imaging, Digitization, Preservation, and Access
Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology (IS&T), Imaging.org
29th-31st May 2022
“The Disappearing Act of India Cinema”
Speaker
Eye International Conference 2022
Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, in collaboration with Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), University of Amsterdam (UvA) &
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
2nd November 2021
"Microscopic Investigations of Historical Colour Processes"
Speaker
"Ringvorlesung" (lecture series)
Masters Programme, Conservation and Restoration Department
Faculty 5: Design and Culture
HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
30th August-3rd September 2021
“A Material Investigation of Color Film Technology through the Koshofer Collection”
Co-speaker
Fourteenth AIC Congress 2012, Milan
Association Internationale de la Couleur
Gruppo del Colore - Associazione Italiana Colore
15th January 2021
"Restaurierung und Digitalisierung der Filmnegative Sammlung von
Palästinawissenschaftler Gustav Dalman"
Co-speaker
University of Greifswald and HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
11th-13th March 2020
“Mordants, Microscopy, Spectroscopy: Studying and Identifying Early Color Systems”
Co-speaker
Fifth International Conference “Colour in Film”, BFI Southbank, London
Colour Group (Great Britain), HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin and the University of Zürich