Monday, March 04, 2019

The Clock (Christian Marclay, ACMI), 3.40 - 4.30pm

This time went by very quickly. It's easy to see how the installation could be mesmerise - unusually, by drawing attention to the passage of time rather than causing the viewer to lose track of it (although, perhaps, it does both, by destabilising one's usual experience of marked time). It made me think about my relationship with time, and it also turns out to be about cinema, including by drawing attention to how scenes are shot and cut. Plus, there's the pleasure of recognising films and faces, as well as the through-lines that are set up via reappearances of films and actors, and clusters of settings and types of action.

(w/ R)