Clara Auclair, 1990-

Biography

Clara Auclair is a film scholar and preservationist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Clara earned her doctorate from the University of Rochester, NY, and Université Paris Cité and is a graduate from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. She has been a guest researcher at Cinémathèque française in Paris and at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. Clara’s current research focuses on film workers mobilities at the beginning of the twentieth century and reflects on the provenance of archival collections, the tensions governing family and institutional archives, and the writing of history in film studies. She currently teaches media studies in Stockholm, Sweden. Clara has been a member of the executive committee of Domitor, the international association for early film research, since 2016, and its secretary since 2019.