AV Preservation by reto.ch

Please note that we telework as much as possible. Email is the fastest and most effective way to reach us.

 

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.


Hours of Operation

on Tuesday and Thursday from 8 o’clock until noon (our time zone is CET)

… or by appointment!

Holidays and Absences

We are always closed at יום הכיפורים. The next Yom Kippur is on the 11th and 12th of October 2024.

Address

AV Preservation by reto.ch GmbH
Sandrainstrasse 3
3007 Bern
Switzerland

Email

In order to limit the amount of spam, we don’t publish email addresses on our websites.
Please use the feedback form … or this hint: ROT13(vasb@ergb.pu)

Phone

+41 77 435 2490 (please consider our hours of operation and holidays and absences)

Telex

Sorry, we don’t have a teleprinter.

Bank Account

IBAN: CH52 0900 0000 8551 6643 9
BIC/SWIFT: POFICHBEXXX
PostFinance Ltd
Mingerstrasse 20
3030 Bern
Switzerland

Federal Identification Number (UID) and VAT Number
CHE-269.401.309
Facility Code
AVP
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Websites

Our websites don’t use tracking, because we believe the visitors are human beings and not commodities, and we oppose the use of CAPTCHA as the technology is unfair to many people with disabilities.

Twitter

We’ve closed our Twitter accounts @retoch and @AVpres, after fourteen and twelve years of activity, because we don’t want to support the blatant antisemitism driven by Elon Musk.

Google

We tried for more than eight years to have the information about us corrected on Maps & Co., before giving up all hope.


A Historical Note

After eight years of activity, the old company reto.ch Sàrl has been closed at the end of 2012. A new company AV Preservation by reto.ch Sàrl has opened at the beginning of 2013 at the same address with the same staff and an improved digital offer, yet without the analogue film lab. Two years later we moved to a smaller facility. At the beginning of 2020 we have closed the analogue video department and moved from Écublens to Préverenges. And from March 2023, our boutique workshop for conservation and restoration is partly operating at the Lichtspiel in Bern, while our research remains in the Lausanne region.


2023-12-24