Céline Ruivo will give a talk as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. Open to all NPS passholders.
Céline Ruivo served as the head of the film archives of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris from 2011 until March 2020. Previously, she worked in the restoration department of Eclair laboratories. She is a member of the Technical Commission of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) which she headed from 2016 to 2020. She is a 2007 graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum. Ruivo’s dissertation for Paris III, Three-Color Technicolor: A History of the Process and the Challenges of its Preservation, was published in 2016. Her master’s thesis explored the connection between Henri Langlois, founder of the Cinémathèque Française, and Iris Barry, the first curator of the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Ruivo has written several articles for Sight & Sound and 1895: Revue d’histoire du cinéma and for the Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto and Toute la mémoire du monde festival catalogues. Ruivo is currently doing a postdoctorate at UC Louvain in Belgium; her research regards the history of magic lanterns. She has recently begun work on a documentary film about women filmmakers.