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)

Please note that currently we telework as much as possible, and the easiest way to reach us is by email.

We are a small, highly skilled moving image conservation and restoration facility based in 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 audio-visual conservation and restoration techniques, and we support open-source projects which we believe are beneficial for the archival community. We are actively engaged in a number of relevant national and international professional bodies. We are running the Swiss Film and Video Directory.

Our Services Include

film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
moving image restoration
files and data transformation, migration and maintenance
digital archiving service
consultancy, training and research on audio-visual preservation issues

Training

Lessons Learned from Thirty Years of IT Emulation, TBA [en]
The MovIm video codec, TBA [en]
TBA, “Digital Archives. Data Literacy and Presentation Strategies in Audiovisual Archives” at Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany, on 6–10 September 2021 [en]
On the Materiality of the Audio-Visual Heritage at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, on 28 September–1 October or 5–8 October 2021 [en]
Digitale Archivierung im Wandel, hosted by Memoriav on 4 november 2021 [de]
Archivage numérique en mutation, hosted by Memoriav on 5 november 2021 [fr]
Medienkunst: Technologie und Erhaltungsstrategien III at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien in Vienna, Austria, on 1–3 December 2021 [de]
Open-Source Tools and Resources for Audio-Visual Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, on 10–13 or 17–20 May 2022 [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
SEAPAVAA, the SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association
Open Isn’t Enough (= “No Time to Wait 5”) at the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum, Netherlands, on 8–10 December 2021

Publications

Agathe Jarczyk, Reto Kromer, Yves Niederhäuser and David Pfluger:
Version 1.2, Memoriav, Bern 2019
Reto Kromer: “On the Bright Side of Data Migrations”, in IASA Journal, n. 49 (December 2018)
Reto Kromer: “Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving?”, in Journal of Film Preservation, n. 96 (April 2017)

Tweets

2021-06-18