EDUCATION
PhD Candidate, Visual and Cultural Studies/ Histoire et sémiologie du texte et de l’image
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY and Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, since 2015.
- PhD in joint partnership between France and the United States.
- Advisors: Emmanuelle André (Professeur en études cinématographiques, HDR, Paris VII) and Sharon Willis (Professor Art and Art History/ Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester).
- Thesis working title: The personal is technical: Collected memory of the French film industry in Fort Lee, NJ.
MA in Arts
Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2019.
Certificate in Film Preservation
L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA, 2014.
- Term project: « The Lost surviving nitrate: George Eastman Museum’s Nitrate French Film Collections ». Film identification and assessment of preservation priorities on the French section of George Eastman Museum’s unpreserved nitrate collection.
MA in Film History and Aesthetics
Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, 2013.
- Specialization ‘Archives and the Future of Images’ – workshop seminar hosted by Cinémathèque Française.
- MA thesis (2nd year): “Filmmakers’ travel diaries in the collections of the Cinémathèque Française: A personal, technical and aesthetical study on cinema history”.
- Junior research project (1st year) on Yervant Gianikian’s and Angela Ricci-Lucchi’s films and artistic processes. Title: “Gianikian’s path: a trip into the heart of images”.
Preparatory class in Film and Literature Studies (Equivalent to a BA)
Lycée Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France et Lycée Jean-Pierre Vernant, Sèvres, France, 2011.
- Three years of intensive course program in film studies and French literature. Preparatory class is an excellence program to form students to attend competitive exams (ENS) or Masters Degrees and PHDs at University. Equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree. Major in Film history and aesthetics and French Literature.
LANGUAGES: French (native speaker), English (fluent)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Pre-doctoral Fellow | Moving Image Department, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, 2020-2022
- Assistant editor of the Photo Drama of Creation book project with Paolo Cherchi Usai.
- Research project on the Francis Doublier Collection.
Digitization specialist | Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Rochester Rochester, NY, USA, since 2016.
- Cultural heritage photography of reflective and transmissive media using Phase One and Capture One Cultural Heritage 10 suite. Multimedia handling ranging from medieval manuscripts to lantern slides, archival biological slides, archival papers, large formats and archival films formats.
- Cultural heritage capture and representation using immersive technologies such as Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), 3D scanners and modeling (in training).
- Digital Restoration of Tokkan Kozo (Yasujirô Ozu, 1929) with DaVinci Resolve.
- Helped reimagine the needs for the imaging lab considering cultural heritage imaging capture.
- Served on job search committees for librarian positions within Rare Books and Special Collections.
Teaching Assistant |Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate Program, University of Rochester, NY, USA, 2015-2018.
- Assisted professors in the preparation of classes, syllabus design, grading and class attendance and participation.
- Designed and gave lecture at least once a semester. Worked with a different class every semester for three years, all film history, theory and media studies classes.
Adjunct Instructor | Film and Media Studies and Art and Art History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, Summer 2017.
- A film’s odyssey: from trick cinematography to special effects. This course explores the history and aesthetic of film’s technology, from the pre- cinematic days to the advent of digital.
Intern – Assistant Archivist | Moving Image Department, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA, 2014-2017.
2015 – 2017
- Discovery and Accessibility – Work in partnership with Caroline Yeager (Assistant Curator, George Eastman Museum) and Ben Lichtin (Independent Researcher) on the translation of letters from the correspondence between Henri Langlois (founder of Cinémathèque Française) and James Card (first curator of the film collection at the George Eastman Museum.
- Subject Specialist Consultation – Ponctual help identifying and inventorying French language films from the Moving Image Department Collection
2014 – 2015
- Collection Management – Inspection, identification and cataloging of early French film of the Moving Image Department
- Preservation and Digital Restoration – Help with a digital restoration project using Revival; U-Matic research and digitization project; DV-tape digitization project; assistant on different preservation projects.
Box Office Manager | Dryden Theater, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA, 2014-2015.
- Box office and ticketing.
- Evening theater management: assisted the projectionist in adjusting image focus and sound levels for the theater, welcomed patrons, surveyed the screening, cleaned and closed the theater.
- Organization of weekly senior matinees. Worked to make the theater wheelchair and walker accessible, welcomed patrons and adjusted light and sound theater settings to the audience.
Intern – Assistant Archivist | Film Collection Department, Cinémathèque Française, Bois d’Arcy, France, Summer 2013.
- Technical Archivist Assistant – Current restoration projects (including three 1915 Balboa studio movies starring Henry King and three Pathé Exchange early short films).
- Assistant Administrator – Cataloged and worked on a new filing system for the department internal administrative documents on their past preservation projects.
Curator | MJC Louis Lepage Youth Cultural Center Nogent-sur-Marne, France, 2013.
- Exhibition on Emile Cohl and the beginning of animated films.
Instructor | MJC Louis Lepage Youth Cultural Center Nogent-sur-Marne, France, Spring 2013.
- Lead an education program for young children on evaluating film and training them to be jury members for the 4th annual “Autour du Court” Film Festival.
Intern | MJC Louis Lepage Youth Cultural Center Nogent-sur-Marne, France, Spring 2012.
- Advised the center on a cinema education program about Georges Méliès’ work and helped evaluate the center’s programs as part of quality improvement efforts.
SPECIAL HONORS AND AWARDS
George Eastman Museum Fellowship, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 2020-2022.
University of Rochester Student Employee of the Year, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 2019.
Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 2018.
River Campus Libraries Dean’s Student Library Service Award, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 2018.
Celeste Hughes Bishop Award for Distinction in Graduate Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 2017.
Pordenone Fellowship Award, L. Jeffrey Selznick School for Film Preservation, Rochester, NY, USA, 2014.
- Research work in partnership with James Layton (George Eastman Museum) and David Pierce (The Media History Digital Library) to prepare and complete a 90min presentation accompanying the ‘Dawn of Technicolor’ program for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone in October 2014.
- This involved thorough research into George Eastman Museum’s paper and film collections, working on the program notes and completing and compiling the presentation using Prezi software.
Bourse Jean-Baptiste Siegel, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France, 2012.
- Guest researcher at Cinémathèque Française. Research work on Cinémathèque Française’s filmmakers’ travel journals collections.
SERVICE
Secretary | Domitor, International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, since 2020.
Elected board member | Domitor, International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, since 2018.
- Chair of the 2019 Domitor Student Essay Award.
- Launched Snapshots Domitor’s new online publication, dedicated to current happenings in the field of early cinema: research updates, events announcements or reviews, publication reviews, debates, ideas for further consideration, work in progress, preservation projects, and the like.
- Help with secretarial duties and translations from English to French.
Webmaster | InVisible Culture Online Journal et Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 2018-2019.
Elected board member | InVisible Culture Online Journal, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, since 2017.
Volunteer | AMIA Student Chapter, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 2013-2018.
- Member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists Student chapter of University of Rochester.
- Creation of a workspace for students to inspect and project analog media held at University of Rochester
- Collaborative project with Rochester’s International Short Film Festival – rehousing of their film collection.
CONFERENCE and PUBLICATIONS
« Récits de décorateurs : regards croisés de Ben Carré et d’Henri Ménessier sur leurs trajectoires transatlantiques. » 17 novembre 2020. Online. DOMITOR 16th international conference: Métiers, savoir-faire et techniques dans le cinéma des premiers temps (November 17-22, 2020)
« Knowing Yourself, Historically: an Interview with Hazel Carby. » Burges, Joel, Dent, Jerome, Prince, Alisa, Sullivan, Patrick, Tucker, Jeffrey and Auclair, Clara, Fong, Byron (ed.), Invisible Culture, Number 31, Fall 2020.
« Ainsi naquit Hollywood: Avant l’âge d’or, les ambitions de la Triangle et des premiers studios by Marc Vernet Armand Colin 2018 (review).»
Clara Auclair The Moving Image, Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2019, pp. 139-141 (Review)
« Thinking with Provenance: Drawing trajectories in the Francis Doublier Collection at the George Eastman Museum. » June 14, 2018. George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA: DOMITOR International Conference, « Provenance and Early Cinema » (13 – 16 juin 2018)
Published in Bernardi, Cherchi Usai, Williams and Yumibe, Provenance and Early Cinema, Indiana University Press, 2021.
« Canned Harmony? Américanisation et réappropriation de l’espace par l’image dans les films d’Alice Guy. » March 29, 2018. Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France: Colloque Archives et Devenir des Images (28-29 mars 2018)
Video recording available online on the hosting institution’s website.
« The personal is technical: Strategies of remembrance in the Francis Doublier Collection. » June 8, 2017. Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, Québec, Canada: Colloque International TECHNES, « Le cinéma dans l’œil du collectionneur » (4-8 juin 2017)
Conference proceedings to be published in 2021.
« Attraits de l’archive: l’aura de l’archive dans les études cinématographiques et l’approche des conduites individuelles ». June 7, 2017.Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, « De proche en proche: accès familial/familier à l’histoire. »
« René Guychard à travers ses cahiers de voyage » December 20, 2016. Fondation Jérôme Seydoux Pathé, Paris, France. KINETRACES invited program, « L’homme à la caméra ».
« De la Cinémathèque française à la George Eastman House de
Rochester, itinéraire d’une jeune chercheuse. » November 10, 2015. Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France: Colloque « Archives 2.0: les archives et la recherche en média et cinéma à l’heure du numérique. » (9-10 novembre 2015)
« Carnets de Voyages dans les Fonds de la Cinémathèque Française : pour une histoire intime, technique et esthétique du cinéma. » Actualités des collections de la Cinémathèque Française, Section Restauration, Numérisation, Conservation (online publication, 2014)
“Pathé Cameramen are everywhere!: René Guychard, acteur et témoin de la mise en scène coloniale.” Actualités des collections de la Cinémathèque Française, Section Restauration, Numérisation, Conservation (online publication, 2012)
EVENTS PROGRAMMED
Programmer | OnFilm, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, since 2016.
- February 28, 2019. “On Duty and Spirit, an evening with Reece Auguiste.”
- February 19, 2018. “Documentary attunements: from voice to audibility.”
- April 17, 2017. “Immigration and Displacement.”
- November 29, 2016. “Queer longings: Narratives of Desire.”
Volunteer | The Nitrate Picture Show, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA, 2015-2018.
“Tricks through Time”, Dryden Theater, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, Dryden series, July 5th – August 1st 2017.
- Program curated with Jurij Meden, Curator of Film Exhibitions, George Eastman Museum.
- https://eastman.org/film-series/tricks-through-time
Organizing committee | Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate conference, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 2016.
Volunteer | Selection Committee, Rochester International Film Festival, Rochester, NY, USA, 2013-2014.
- Involved in the programming, critiques and program notes writing for the 56th and 57th editions of the Festival.
RELEVANT SKILLS
- Archival film, paper and object handling.
- MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite, Filemakerpro, The Museum System, DaVinci Revival, Capture One Cultural Heritage, RTI.