AV Preservation by reto.ch

If it’s not awesome, we don’t do it.

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

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

Training

• On the Materiality of the Audio-Visual Heritage at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, from 15 to 18 October and on 4 December 2024 [en]
• The Green Archive, FIAF Commissions’ Thursday Online Workshops, online, planned initially for 30 March 2023, then for 4 April 2024 and now on 14 November 2024 [en]
• FFmpeg-Workshop, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Kamilla Ødegård and Reto Kromer, on 3 February 2025 [de]
• Atelier FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Éléonore Bernard and Reto Kromer, on 7 February 2025 [fr]

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

2024-09-25