About me
Oscar Becher is the Director of The Vinegar Syndrome Film Archive and the Vault Manager/Archivist at Vinegar Syndrome, a film restoration and distribution company focused on the preservation of historically overlooked areas of cinema, with a particular emphasis on genre films. He has supervised the buildout and expansion of VS' in-house climate-controlled film archive while personally processing all incoming film elements. Since starting at VS in 2021, he has inventoried and re-housed over 30,000 reels of film and has overseen projects related to the locating and recovery of endangered elements, repair and prep for scanning, and has produced instructional and educational videos on film handling and element identification. He graduated in 2020 from the Selznick School of Film Preservation and in 2023 from NYU’s Moving Image and Preservation Program.
