Chronovisor

A woman talking on the phone at a desk inside a shadowy library looks over her shoulder with an uneasy expression on her face.

While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic at Columbia University, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen, rumored to be created by Benedictine monks and suppressed by the Vatican. Her obsession with the mysterious machine drags her from her Upper East Side apartment through the depths of New York City’s hidden libraries, to the edge of a breakthrough.

This debut feature from Kevin Walker and Jack Auen is an academic-noir and armchair mystery that is sure to delight lovers of libraries and the countless mysteries they contain.

Part of our "Worth a Watch" series. Courtesy of Grasshopper Films.

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"Don’t miss CHRONOVISOR all hail CHRONOVISOR" — Jane Schoenbrun (director, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma)

"Astonishingly original. Enrapturing. A true story of paranormal intrigue." — Jordan Cronk, Film Comment

"One of the year’s most unique features is a fascinating docu-fiction hybrid that splits the difference between The Da Vinci Code (2006) and La Jetée (1962)." — Dylan Adamson, The Brooklyn Rail

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