Chronovisor

Chronovisor places so much emphasis on the act of reading, employing techniques reminiscent of David Gatten and Michael Snow (particularly SO IS THIS). While this is thrilling in and of itself, what elevates the act is how it places us into the headspace of Béatrice Courte,…

Joshua Minsoo Kim

The best and most original new film I’ve seen this year so far. If you’re into historicist and epistemological films like Gatten’s and also paranoid techno-social queries like Cronenberg’s, and you like Vatican conspiracy stories as a guilty pleasure, this will be candy for…

Alex Fields

Like its namesake, the spectacle of Chronovisor prompts wild and implausible theories. Comparisons have been made to the early digital imaging tech of Lilian Schwartz, but even that could not adequately describe it. It leaves me speechless and full of question: At what…

Sam B.

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irenezee

I’ve genuinely never seen anything like it, and I don’t mean that because it’s a generational film of the mystery genre (even though it might be). The storytelling was so gripping, even if the film forced the audience to read a bit too much at times. I was completely…

Issac

I try not to rave about a film too much on a first glance, especially not during festival coverage, so believe me when I say this is probably the best debut feature I've seen in years. Granted, it happens to touch on plenty of my other interests ("Weird studies," academia,…

Z. W. Lewis

An obsessive text. The polyglot speaks four languages and yet there's such uncertain delineation between notions of translation and revision, sifting through literature in observance of certain passages whose notations are superimposed in the elevation of their…

Jack Russo

MIFF 2026 - Film #2 Truly a special experience feeling as if I am watching a film unlike any film I've seen before. A genuinely thrilling ride comprised mostly of highlighted passages in books I imagined were fake but have since learnt are real. Suggests a kind of darkness…

Lucy

I love reading at the cinema. More text onscreen all the time please. This movie captures the particular myopic high of good research. The way bits and pieces, asides and ephemera can encroach on the mind palace, obsessive thoughts skittering like bugs on daily life. Our…

Kai Perrignon