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Chronovisor Trailer Debuts as Docufiction Sets Limited U.S. Release

The trailer and a Grasshopper Film deal bring Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s 16mm academic noir to New York theaters on a planned September run.

Overview

  • The film premiered in the Bright Future competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and later played at New Directors/New Films before its U.S. launch.
  • Journalists released the first full trailer on Thursday, August 20, highlighting the film’s archival visuals and conspiratorial tone.
  • Grasshopper Film will open Chronovisor in select U.S. theaters starting September 4 with an initial screening at Film at Lincoln Center.
  • Chronovisor is a 100-minute docufiction by Kevin Walker and Jack Auen that blends 16mm analogue cinematography with archival text-driven storytelling and experimental video art.
  • Anne-Laure Sellier stars as Béatrice, a Columbia-affiliated scholar drawn into the Pellegrino Ernetti Chronovisor legend, and Jason Zuriff produced the feature; critics frame the movie as a literary, festival-to-theater art-house project rather than a factual claim about the device.