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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 small team provides worldwide comprehensive services that encompass the whole range of audiovisual preservation, offering Swiss quality at a competitive price. We publish a newsletter approximately once a month, summarising news relevant to the preservation of audiovisual media. We have a particular commitment to the dissemination of low-technology and low-energy audiovisual 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 audiovisual preservation
  • film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
  • digital moving image and sound restoration
  • files and data transformation
  • maintenance and migration of digital archives

Training

  • No More Time to Waste, mid-October 2026 [en]
  • The Path from Analogue to Digital, for the SEAPAVAA Fellows Lecture Series AV Archiving: Do We Still Need Vaults?, online in 2026 [en]
  • COBOL Essentials, a two half-day course in Autumn 2026 [en]
  • Blurriness Was Photogenic: A Personal and Technical Memoir, on 27 June 2027 [en]

Publications

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, the 10th edition will take place at Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA) in Warsaw, Poland, from 14 to 16 October 2026

2026-05-30