Assistant Curator for Outreach and Engagement
Kitty has been at the BFI since August 2023, joining as a Curatorial Archivist on a short-term contract after four years of freelance work as an archive researcher and producer for film, TV and streaming. At the beginning of 2024 she began work as Assistant Curator for Outreach and Engagement on the National lottery-funded programme Our Screen Heritage, working closely with the contemporary collecting team.
Kitty has an MA from the University of Amsterdam in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, during which she spent six months as an intern in the cultural diffusion office in the national film archive at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Her interests include archival film festivals, the post-war British crime film, masculinity and male friendship in cinema, French poetic realism, Italian neorealism, the notion of the spectator and the screenic image, and how the moving image can tell (his)stories.