It seems there are media accounts that Ernetti announced his invention in 1972. Subsequent accounts are skeptical and erratic. At one point, an image of Christ at the crucifixion was released, but Ernetti later disavowed it. Regardless, the Vatican allegedly confiscated the Chronovisor, disassembling and boxing up the components for safe-keeping, to persevere every nation’s military and state secrets, as well as personal privacy as we have always known it. Or did they?
Beatrice Courte will follow the bread crumbs, trying to sleuth out Ernetti’s ultimate fate as well as that of the Chronovisor. Consequently, much of the film consists of still photography of various news reports pertaining to Ernetti and his invention, which are especially bizarre, considering many (if not all) were actually published. You could consider them “true” fake news.
If you are intrigued by this weird intersection of religion and science, then Auen & Walker’s rigorously academic approach should appeal to you. Evidently, it was inspired by David Bentley Hart’s short story “The Memory Palace,” but the credits also acknowledge Umberto Eco and Jorge Luis Borges as additional influences, which definitely makes sense.
