How much are you willing to sacrifice for your obsessions? Your time? Your focus? Your health? Your soul? When those obsessions feel important? Or reveal some hidden, critical, essential truth?
Chronovisor creeps into you by immersing you in the very personal nature of discovery and the satisfactions that come with an unresolved quest. The score - like a Wagnerian opera - rises and swells but never resolves. The grainy 16mm film stock feels like a grungy, half forgotten memory.
Like Red Rooms - another film steeped in obsession and screens — this is a work that likely requires multiple viewings to reveal its deeper pleasures. But even on first watch - the Chronovisor and its implications are obviously real - even if the device remains a myth?
A brilliant feature debut. By far the best new movie I've seen this year. Can't wait to see it again.