2025 Training Courses

Tutorials

Beginner Level

• Einführung in FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Kamilla Ødegård and Reto Kromer, on 3 February 2025 [de]
• Initiation à FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Éléonore Bernard and Reto Kromer, on 7 February 2025 [fr]
• COBOL Essentials, a two half-day course in Autumn 2025 [en]

Intermediate Level

• FFmpeg-Aufbaukurs, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Kamilla Ødegård and Reto Kromer, on 13 March 2025 [de]
• Cours avancé de FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Éléonore Bernard and Reto Kromer, on 14 March 2025 [fr]
• Open-Source Tools and Resources for Audio-Visual Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), in Spring 2025 [en]
• On the Materiality of the Audio-Visual Heritage at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, in Autumn 2025 [en]

Advanced Level

• FFmpeg-Workshop at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 3 April 2025 [de]
• Analoge und digitale Filmkonservierung und -restaurierung at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 12 November 2025 [de]
• Descendants of ALGOL, a two half-day course in Autumn 2025 [en]

Lectures

• Errando tra analogico e digitale, keynote speech at Moving Forward, Looking Back / Andare avanti, guardare indietro, Università degli Studi della Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy, on 27 and 28 February 2025 [it]
• File size and checksums and From analogue to digital #314159, two lightning talks for No Time to Wait 9 at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin from 15 to 17 October 2025 [en]

Reports from the Field

• HyperCard integration into QuickTime on 21 February 2025 [en]
• Playing with FFmpeg, OpenVINO and TensorFlow on 28 March 2025 [en]
• “Me at the zoo” on 23 April 2025 [en]
• Running GS/OS and GNO/ME on Apple IIgs. For example: Pascal, Рапира and HyperCard on 12 September 2025 [en]

Internships

• We were pleased to welcome a scholar as well as to mentor online four colleagues.

Publications

• Reto Kromer: Review of The FIAF Disaster Handbook, in Journal of Film Preservation, n. 112 (April 2025) [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 9 at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin from 15 to 17 October 2025

2025-04-28