Chronovisor

American duo Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s 16mm sci-fi noir follows a Columbia academic spiralling into a research wormhole. While writing on memory, Béatrice (real-life professor Anne-Laure Sellier) becomes fixated on a Benedictine monk’s claim to have built the ‘Chronovisor,’ a time-travelling machine that can broadcast the past onto a television set. The monk even claimed to have witnessed the crucifixion of Christ. As Béatrice delves deeper into the archive, a labyrinth of conjecture, cover-ups and conspiracy begins to emerge. Shot in New York’s gothic reading rooms, Chronovisor is a cerebral, formally daring mystery in the spirit of Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco, where scholarship becomes séance.