The Clock
United Kingdom
2010
1440 Min
Color, Black and White
English
Synopsis
Christian Marclay’s groundbreaking 24-hour video work The Clock comprises several thousand short extracts from cinema history, each suggesting a particular time of day or referencing a specific moment, often through the appearance of a watch or clock-face. Marclay has stitched these extracts together to form a continuous visual sequence synchronised with the real time of your visit – if it is noon you’ll be watching a scene referencing noon. Even more impressively, the scenes suggest countless interlocking narratives despite the constant changes in genres, eras, locations and plotlines. —mca.com
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Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay (b. 11 January 1955, San Rafael, California, USA) is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.
Marclay’s work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the “unwitting inventor of turntablism.” His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the late 1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop’s use of the instrument.
At the 2011 Venice Biennale, Marclay was recognised as the best artist in the official exhibition, winning the Golden Lion for The Clock, a 24-hour compilation of time-related scenes from movies that debuted at London’s White Cube gallery in 2010. Newsweek responded by naming Marclay one of the ten most important artists of today. Accepting the Golden Lion, Marclay invoked Andy Warhol, thanking the jury “for giving The Clock… read more
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Brotherdeacon
2Aug12
THE CLOCK Screening Saturday, September 22, 2012 / 12 pm at Los Angeles County Art Museum (LACMA) running its complete 24 hours until Sunday Sept 23 @12---If you're in the area, it's an opportunity to see an amazing film (at least part of it anyhow since it is 24 hours long). Highly Recommended for anyone who's interested in contemporary film and art.
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fakebook (Tom)
30Jul12
I stayed for 3 1/2 hours. I wish I'd had more time. There's nothing like this. A loving homage to cinema, but also a meditation on life, time, and the extraordinary.
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filmcapsule
20Jul12
No modern film makes the temporal quality of cinema more apparent than the monumental The Clock, which creates a strange universe in which all of cinema’s characters live simultaneously. Watching any movie, a minute can feel like an eternity, or an hour can flash by in an instant. The Clock, however, uses editing to reunite film with true time. http://filmcapsule.com/2012/07/18/the-clock-2010/
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The Paradox of Cinematic Time
By © <',))( Astro-Tofupraxographer on January 1, 2013
One of The Clock’s many remarkable achievements is how it completely reduced me to a child seeing these remarkable images for the first time, giving me an irremovable wide grin and occasionally producing… read review
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