AV Preservation by reto.ch

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 small team provides worldwide comprehensive services that encompass the whole range of audiovisual preservation, offering Swiss quality at a competitive price. We publish a newsletter approximately once a month, summarising news relevant to the preservation of audiovisual media. We have a particular commitment to the dissemination of low-technology and low-energy audiovisual conservation and restoration techniques. We support open-source projects which we believe are beneficial for the archival community.

Our company will permanently close its doors on the 31^st of December 2026. We are accepting new projects until mid-November and look forward to completing them with our usual care before the end of the year. Thank you for your support over 23 years! Post-retirement, Reto plans to continue working part-time as an independent consultant and trainer in audiovisual preservation.

Our Services Include

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

Training

• COBOL Essentials, a two half-day course on 22 and 24 September 2026 [en]
• No More Time to Waste, on 16 October 2026 [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, the 10^th edition will take place at Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA) in Warsaw, Poland, from 14 to 16 October 2026

2026-09-18