Chronovisor

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

Chronovisor

Opens October 2

While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, 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. 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. The directorial debut of filmmakers Jack Auenn and Kevin Walker.

"[Chronovisor is] the kind of wildly sui generis film made to foster its own fascinated, slow-growing cult — and puts Auen and Walker on the map as mischievous genre mixologists to watch."
Guy Lodge, Variety
"Getting caught up in the film’s mounting obsession feels like falling headfirst into a Wikipedia rabbit hole, tumbling into darkness and data until dawn breaks over your bloodshot eyes. It’s a rush and an addiction, deceptively bookish, where repetition is part of the process and digging deeper is the only way through."
Jacob Oller, The A.V. Club


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