Chronovisor

Chronovisor

Jack Auen, Kevin Walker / 2026 / 100 min. / USA

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.

  • Director

    Jack Auen, Kevin Walker

  • Producer

    Jason Zuriff

  • Cast

    Anne Laure Sellier

  • "Don’t miss CHRONOVISOR all hail CHRONOVISOR"

    — Jane Schoenbrun (director, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma)

  • “CRITIC’S PICK. Enchanting. A bewitchingly lo-fi thriller.”

    — Brandon Yu, The New York Times

  • “A film of compounding obsessions... for those patient enough to watch the pages turn, it ends up somewhere electrifying.”

    — Zachary Barnes, The Wall Street Journal

  • “A near-fetishistic delight. Rarely has a film so resourcefully evoked the transportive, decidedly analog thrill of reading.”

    — Guy Lodge, Variety

  • “One of the year’s most bewitchingly weird (and best) movies.”

    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire

  • “An extraordinary debut. A thrilling, Borgesian plunge down a conspiracy rabbit hole.”

    — Brad Hanford, Slant

  • “A masterpiece that will rattle around in your head for days... A staggering cinematic showpiece that stands head and shoulders above any other narrative feature released so far this year.”

    — Coleman Spilde, Salon

  • “An eerie, evocative work... utterly enrapturing. Walker and Auen bring it all to stunning life on screen.”

    — Chase Hutchinson, The Seattle Times

  • “I've never seen something quite like this... an exceptional work of modest filmmaking that takes on a final form you won't see coming.”

    — Sean Fennessey
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