רטו קרומר  •  Reto Kromer

Having graduated in both mathematics and computer science, Reto Kromer became involved in audio-visual conservation and restoration thirty-nine years ago. He has been running his own preservation company, AV Preservation by reto.ch, and also lecturing at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. His courses cover the conservation and restoration not only of audio-visual content but also of audio-visual carriers, usually with a focus on technical issues and motion picture film. The research projects he is currently leading are mainly focussed on the digital domain and include colour spaces, look-up tables and codec programming and emulation, as well as methods for the recovery of actual files and the so-called raw data they hold.

Previously he was head of preservation at the Cinémathèque suisse (the Swiss National Film Archive) as well as a lecturer at the University of Lausanne, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián). He served as a board member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) for four years. His work has seen him honoured with one of the inaugural Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) Awards and a SMPTE James A. Lindner Archival Technology Medal.

Part of his leisure time is devoted to study and teaching Medieval and Western Yiddish as well as other rare Jewish languages, including some varieties of northern Judeo-Italian such as Judeo-Venetian, Judeo-Lombard and Judeo-Piedmontese.

2025-10-07