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. We are running the Swiss Film and Video Directory.

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

Memoriav-Workshop “Open Source im Archivalltag. Ein Update für die Praxis” in Bern on 10 January 2024 [de]
Atelier Memoriav “Logiciels ouverts dans l’archive. Une mise à jour pour la pratique” in Bern on 11 January 2024 [fr]
“Recipes for Disaster” by Helen Hill at Orphan Film Symposium at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York City, United States of America, from 10 to 13 April 2024 [en]
Open-Source Tools and Resources for Audio-Visual Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), from 4 to 7 June 2024 [en]

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 7 at Národní Filmový Archiv in Prague, Czech Republic, from 8 to 10 November 2023
RAWcooked, the bridge between uncompressed and lossless compressed files

2023-11-29