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Expert on Film Colour wins 2025 Len Lye Research AwardThe Len Lye Foundation is delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Barbara Flueckiger has been awarded the 2025 Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research.The award, sponsored by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates Webb who was a key figure in the re-discovery and restoration of Lye’s work.Flueckiger is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Zurich and the creator of Scan2Screen, an innovative scanning method which captures the colour of historical films in a more accurate way. Her research on colour has been celebrated and put to use by film experts around the world. In 2023 when the Colour Group in Great Britain awarded her the Turner Medal for her colour research, her Turner Lecture focused on Lye’s films.Her award-winning proposal centres on further research into Lye’s films at the Lye Archive at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, as well as other archives in Aotearoa New Zealand.Roger Horrocks ad Wystan Curnow, speaking for the Len Lye Foundation, said:“There was a very strong field of entries for this year’s Webb Award, from Australia, the US, as well as New Zealand. They included university theses on Lye and in-depth research essays on his films, paintings, sculptures, and links with noted artists and writers. We were very impressed by all entries but saw Flueckiger’s work on colour as outstanding. We hope the Webb Award will bring her to New Zealand, where there's strong interest in her insights on film history and Len Lye's work.”A heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted entries and assisted the Foundation to get the Award word out there.@scan2screen @fluecolor @timeline_filmcolors @govettbrewster @ngataongasv----------------------------------------------------------------------Portrait image supplied by Barbara Flueckiger.Film stills from ‘Colour Flight’ (1938) A “direct” film made without a camera sponsored by Imperial Airways. Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation. Supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, the New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga ---------------------------------------------------------------------#LenLye #filmcolors #filmhistory

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