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 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.

Our Services Include

• research, training and consultancy on audio-visual preservation
• film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
• digital moving image and sound restoration
• files and data transformation
• migration and maintenance of digital archives

Training

• “File size and checksums” and “From analogue to digital #314159”, two lightning talk proposals submitted for No Time to Wait 9 at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin from 15 to 17 October 2025 [en]
• Analoge und digitale Filmkonservierung und -restaurierung at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 29 October or 12 November 2025 [de]
• COBOL Essentials, a two half-day course in Autumn 2025 [en]

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

2025-04-20