Films

French academic Béatrice Courte is researching the philosophy and neuroscience of memory when she stumbles on a decades-old scandal: the Chronovisor, a device the real Italian monk Pellegrino Ernetti once claimed could photograph any moment in history, such as the crucifixion. What begins as a footnote becomes an obsession rendered through a hypnotic cascade of texts, translations, and analog media, with VHS tapes and microfiche standing in as haunted relics of the past. Shot in warm, low-lit 16mm across the libraries of New York City, this remarkable debut from Cosmic Salon's Jack Auen and Kevin Walker wields solitary research itself as a portal into historiography, paranormal belief, and institutional suppression, questioning where fact ends and the stories begin while evoking Jorge Luis Borges e Umberto Eco.