‘Chronovisor’ Trailer: Vatican Conspiracy and Time Travel Turn Academic Research Into a Thrillingly Freaky Brain Tease

‘Chronovisor’ Trailer: An Academic Hunts For An Occult Machine Capable Of Replaying The Past

What if humanity’s past could be retrieved like a television broadcast? That tantalizing possibility drives “Chronovisor,” an inventive academic noir from writers and directors Kevin Walker and Jack Auen. READ MORE: 53 Must-See Films To Watch Summer 2026 Anne-Laure Sellier stars as Béatrice, a respected Columbia University academic writing a monograph on historical theories of memory. Her research leads her to the allegedly true story of the Chr…

‘Chronovisor’ Trailer: Vatican Conspiracy and Time Travel Turn Academic Research Into a Thrillingly Freaky Brain Tease

Filmmakers Kevin Walker and Jack Auen dig into Vatican history to craft this shoestring but highly effective academic conspiracy thriller about a supposed occult device that can photograph the distant past.

NYC's Hidden Libraries Occult Mystery Thriller 'Chronovisor' Trailer

"A singular conspiracy thriller that functions as a labyrinthine game." Grasshopper Films has revealed an official trailer for the film Chronovisor, a unique microbudget indie mystery creation from NYC. Marking the feature directorial debut of filmmakers Jack Auen & Kevin Walker, it premiered at the 2026 Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR) and also at New Directors/New Films in NYC. An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collid…

CHRONOVISOR Official Trailer: What if we Could Reproduce Visuals From Any Point in History on a TV Screen?

While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice, 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. [Read the whole post on screenana…

A Conspiracy of Jesus and Tech Unfurls In Trailer for Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s Chronovisor

An immediate movie-of-the-year contender, Chronovisor has lost little of its luster since a February premiere at Rotterdam. After an acquisition from Grasshopper Film, Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s feature debut will open at Film at Lincoln Center on September 4 before a larger theatrical roll-out, and ahead of this is the first trailer. As Leonardo Goi said in our Rotterdam review, “Ostensibly set in the present, Chronovisor keeps jamming your t…