Kieron Webb

Kieron Webb is Head of Conservation at the BFI National Archive, leading the photographic, digital and research laboratories. He has worked on the restoration of the first films of Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, and David Lean, as well as Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), and the digital releases of Abel Gance’s Napoleon (1927) and Mike Leigh’s Naked (1993).  

Having studied film at the University of Kent, Kieron joined the BFI in 2000. He has a special interest in the history of film colors and their representation today, motivated by his involvement with restoration of various historical color systems.  

He is a member of FIAF’s Technical Commission and sat on the advisory board for the research project The Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema, 1955-85. In 2024, he became Principal Investigator for a new state-of-the-art heritage science laboratory. The development of a £1 million Moving Image Conservation Research Laboratory is currently underway at the BFI National Archive’s Conservation Centre; part of the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council)’s wider RICHeS (Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science) program and the first of its kind.