AV Preservation by reto.ch

If it’s not awesome, we don’t do it.

 

Création de la serpentine

A stencil-coloured print of
Création de la Serpentine by Segundo de Chomón,
Pathé Frères, France 1908
(Courtesy by Österreichisches Filmmuseum, the Austrian Film Museum)

 

We are a highly skilled moving image conservation and restoration company, partly operating at the Lichtspiel in Bern, Switzerland. Our team provides worldwide comprehensive services that encompass the whole range of audio-visual preservation, offering Swiss quality at a competitive price. We have a particular commitment to the dissemination of low-technology and low-energy audio-visual conservation and restoration techniques. We support open-source projects which we believe are beneficial for the archival community.

Our Services Include

  • research, training and consultancy on audio-visual preservation
  • film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
  • digital moving image and sound restoration
  • files and data transformation
  • migration and maintenance of digital archives

Training

  • Green Archiving – Eco-Friendly Practices in Use in the Film Archives, FIAF Commissions’ Thursday Online Workshops, on 14 November 2024 [en]
  • Einführung in FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Kamilla Ødegård and Reto Kromer, on 3 February 2025 [de]
  • Initiation à FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Éléonore Bernard and Reto Kromer, on 7 February 2025 [fr]
  • FFmpeg-Workshop at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 3 April 2025 [de]

Patronage of the Arts and the Sciences

  • AMIA, the Association of Moving Image Archivists
  • FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives
  • IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
  • No Time to Wait 8 at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 11 to 13 of September 2024

2024-11-05