Michelle Aubert

Michelle Aubert (known as Michelle Snapes from 1965 to the late 1980s) has to her credit a long and distinguished career supporting the conservation, restoration and promotion of films and non-film archives, having worked for two historical Members of FIAF: first, the British Film Institute, where she was an indexer in the Information Department (1969-1974), then Head of the Stills Department (1975-1985), and finally Deputy Curator at the National Film Archive (1986-1989); then, the Archives françaises du film (CNC) in Bois d'Arcy, where she worked as Curator until her retirement in 2007. The passion and determination she showed in these two key film heritage institutions has also guided the impressive work she accomplished within FIAF over three decades. In the early 70s, she was one of the initiators of the Periodicals Indexing Project (P.I.P.). She was later a very active Head of the Documentation Commission from 1988 to 1991, before joining the Executive Committee that year. She was President of FIAF from 1995-1999. She received a FIAF Honorary Membership in June 2016, a few months before she passed away.

David Francis & Éric Le Roy, “Michelle Aubert (1942-2016)”, Journal of Film Preservation, Issue 96, Apr 2017, p. 46-54