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Opening September 4 at Film at Lincoln Center, Chronovisor follows Columbia scholar Béatrice Courte into the analog archives of New York City’s historic libraries on an all-consuming academic investigation into the story of a disputed Vatican time-viewing device. Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s utterly unique debut feature performs a remarkable sleight of hand by transforming the private, internal momentum of close study into a genuinely kinetic pursuit, with each passage and cross-reference drawing Béatrice, and us, further into an obsessive—yet largely deskbound—investigation. Presented in the lead-up to the film’s theatrical release, Bibliomania gathers films and moving-image works that find suspense, jokes, terror, revelation, strange pleasures, and formal invention in acts that might, at first glance, seem almost impossible to dramatize. These are films of secret books and scholarly obsessions—where archives set the stage for research montages, becoming thresholds to forbidden texts and occult objects, where words get scrutinized so closely they begin to look back at those of us reading them in a movie theater. Spanning Hollywood adventures and armchair mysteries to BBC ghost stories, essay films, structural experiments, and text cinema, this series traces the many ways artists have transformed the taciturn labor of reading and research into cinema. This summer, come study with us at the Walter Reade Theater, and remember: our tickets make handy bookmarks, too.