Kirsty Sinclair Dootson
Associate Professor in the History of Art at University College London and co-founder of the Bombay Film Colour Network, researching how colour media shaped Britain and its empire and the aesthetics and politics of colour in cinema.
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Jan 27, 2026 • 27min
Colour in Film
Swarnavel Eswaran, filmmaker and professor of Indian cinema; Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, historian of art studying colour and empire. They trace Kodak Krishnan’s role bringing and rationing Eastman stock in India. They explore how colour film stocks, industry politics and costs shaped Bollywood palettes, skin-tone representation, and the geopolitics of cinematic colour.
