Catherine Breillat is an intellectual filmmaker. Her films pose ethical questions about desire and aesthetic questions...

‘Archiving and Curating Women’s Media Histories: Feminist Challenges, Approaches, Practices, Possibilities.’ We are delighted that the 8th iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network ...

Hertfordshire Libraries are teaming up with the BFI National Archive to celebrate Hertfordshire

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As part of National Lottery Open Week in March we are offering a rare chance to explore the BFI National Archive.

The paper archives of Gurinder Chadha and Tina Gharavi reveal both filmmakers’ prodigious creativity and dedication to their craft, but also the challenges and pushbacks they’ve faced in a male-domina...

Gharavi was BAFTA-nominated for I Am Nasrine and her work focuses on the migrant experience, representation and storytelling.

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The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.

Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives

The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis and interpretati...

Packed with notes, sketches and Polaroids, this shooting script for Sally Potter’s film of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando illustrates the complexity of one of cinema’s undersung roles: the script supervisor...

You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

The BFI’s highest honour recognises the huge global impact of Mulvey’s work through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking, including her seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’.

Come explore the innovative and boundary-pushing world of experimental archives at Kingston University on 11th and 12th September 2025!

Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

Currently on display as part of the Design Museum’s celebration of a century of swimming style, this 1920s promo image offers a tantalising glimpse of a sadly lost silent feature starring Bebe Daniels...

Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told

In the first of a new series showcasing treasures from the BFI National Archive, we put a spotlight on some big-statement interior decoration: 1950s wallpaper inspired by Powell and Pressburger’s clas...

Belle da Costa Greene was a trainee librarian at Princeton University when J.P. Morgan hired her to dust and pack his...

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