Finding Time for The Clock

Obsessive film buff Eloise Ross has visited Christian Marclay's 24-hour video installation in galleries around the world. It takes on new meaning in her home town.
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Image: Don’t worry if you need to take a nap. Screenshot from Fritz Lang’s Clash by Night, which appears in The Clock.

We live in a busy, fast-paced world. Sometimes, there’s barely time to watch a film of relatively normal duration, let alone one that goes for an entire rotation of the day’s clock. So how can you sit down for hours on end and watch something for that long, without the satisfaction of a major storyline or character arc of a classical narrative film?

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Eloise Ross
About the Author
Eloise Ross is an academic, writer, and critic. She is a co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque and a co-host of Cultural Capital podcast.