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)

Please note that:
– We are open also during the China virus pandemic.¹
– As we currently telework as much as possible, the easiest way to reach us is by email.

We are a small, highly skilled moving image conservation and restoration facility based in 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 audio-visual conservation and restoration techniques, and we support open-source projects which we believe are beneficial for the archival community. We are actively engaged in a number of relevant national and international professional bodies. We are running the Swiss Film and Video Directory.

Our Services Include

• film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
• moving image restoration
• audio-visual files and data transformation
• data migration with file format maintenance
• digital archiving service
• consultancy, training and research on audio-visual preservation issues

Training

• How to keep running Flash after 2020–12–31, TBA [en]
• Open-Source Tools and Resources for Audio-Visual Archives, at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, on 11–14 May 2021 [en]
• TBA, “Digital Archives. Data Literacy and Presentation Strategies in Audiovisual Archives” at Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany, on 6–10 September 2021 [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
• SEAPAVAA, the SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association
• No Time to Wait 5 at the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum, Netherlands, TBA

Publications

• Agathe Jarczyk, Reto Kromer, Yves Niederhäuser and David Pfluger:
  • Digitale Archivierung von Film und Video: Grundlagen und Orientierung [de]
  • L’archivage numérique des films et vidéos: fondements et orientations [fr]
  • Digital Archiving of Film and Video: Principles and Guidance [en]
  Version 1.2, Memoriav, Bern 2019
• Reto Kromer: “On the Bright Side of Data Migrations”, in IASA Journal, n. 49 (December 2018)
• Reto Kromer: “Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving?”, in Journal of Film Preservation, n. 96 (April 2017)

Tweets

Note

1

We have decided to change the designation from “CoViD-19” to “China virus pandemic”, because People’s Republic of China is still refusing any independent scientific investigation, lead by the World Health Organisation, on the cross-species barrier jumping. Honestly, which is China’s interest in hiding the truth about this disease?

2021–01–22