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 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, and offers you Swiss quality at a competitive price. We also have a particular commitment to the dissemination of audio-visual conservation and restoration techniques, and we are actively engaged in a number of relevant national and international professional bodies.

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

News

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
• Rough Consensus and Running Archives (= «No Time to Wait 3») on 25–26 October 2018 at the BFI Southbank in London, United Kingdom
• 11^th Orphan Film Symposium on 10–14 April 2018 in Astoria, New York, United States of America
• Restoration Asia V on 6 April 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand
• «Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop India 2017» on 7–14 October 2017 in Chennai, India
• RAWcooked, encode and decode bit-by-bit audio-visual raw data with Matroska, FFV1 and FLAC
• DCP-o-matic, the powerful open-source tool for creating digital cinema packages

Training

• Working with Multispectral Moving Images, 28 September 2018 [en]
• Migration von Film- und Videodaten, in collaboration with Lichtspiel and Memoriav, on 31 October 2018 in Berne [de]
• all-day workshop on archiving of small-gauge films in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, on 13 November 2018 [it]
• Conservation and Restoration of Moving Image at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 10–14 December 2018 and 7 January 2019 [de]
• Deterioros y conservación de los materiales fotoquímicos / Deterioration and conservation of photochemical material at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián, Spain, on 21–25 January 2019 [en]
• two-week teaching at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, on 13–24 May 2019 [en]

Tweets

2018–09–22