Olivia Kristina Stutz

Biography

Olivia Kristina Stutz is a PhD student in the University of Zurich’s Department of Film Studies, with a particular affiliation to the ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors project. Her research focuses on the relationship between the technology and aesthetics of color film processes in the period from the mid-1890s to the early 1930s, with a special interest in the materiality of both the analog film and the profilmic setup. She was an active contributor to and curator of the Timeline of Historical Film Colors from 2016 to 2020 and acquired experience with nitrate film during stints in the Silent Film Department at the BFI National Archive (UK) in 2016 and in the Department of Film Conversation and Digital Access at the EYE Filmmuseum (NL) in 2017. More recently, she contributed to the film exhibition Color Mania: The Material of Color in Photography and Film (2019) at Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH). Her published essays include “Such (Dye-)Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: Material Interactions between the Photography, Film, and Fashion Industries” (2020) and “The Hybrid Color Film: Multiplicity of Space, Time, and Matter” (2021).