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Until January 20th, 2019 the 24-hour-long film \u201cThe Clock\u201d by Christian Marclay will be on show at Tate Modern.<\/strong><\/p>\n The movie, which first came out in 2010, is a 24-hour-long video installation on the big screen. The aim\u00a0of the director is challenging the concept of the \u201cunreality\u201d of time usually given by the cinema. Marclay\u2019s artwork is made out of hundreds of movie scenes in which the current time is either told in the dialogues or showed on a clock. The time you see on screen is synchronised with real time. Achieving this outcome took years of research and montage.<\/p>\n Time in the movies<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Clock,\u201d for which Marclay was awarded the Golden Lion at 2011 Venice festival, is at Tate Modern for the first time.\u00a0More than a movie, though, it is an actual experience. Typically, when you go to the movies, you start from the assumption that you will be told \u2013 or rather shown – a story. Often, the time of the narrative is not even questioned: the story you\u2019re told can last ten minutes just as well as decades, and that\u2019s something you would barely notice.\u00a0 When you\u2019re sitting at Tate watching \u201cThe Clock,\u201d you\u2019re not told only one story- in fact, you\u2019re watching a whole universe of them, one by one, spacing through the history of cinema. Yet, you\u2019re never allowed to lose track of time. It doesn\u2019t really matter how far in time and space you travel while following all the different imaginaries presented to you, you\u2019ll always be tied up to the present reality. What you experience, is literally the passing of time.\u00a0 Viewers are loving The Clock!<\/p>\n 6am, 7am, 8am The Clock, Christian Marclay \/ Cant think of anywhere else I\u2019d rather be from 4am in the morning \u2764\ufe0f#TheClockatTate<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ayxfvn4yvs<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 verity-jane keefe (@veritykeefe) December 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n Woke up at 3:52 to make coffee and walk down to see The Clock at the Tate Modern \ud83d\udd52 \u2615 \ud83d\ude34<\/p>\n \u2014 Bryan Kam (@bryankam) December 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n My first visit at the Tate Modern today (finally…) \u2014 Audrey (@audreybiz) December 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n The “Number One Fan”<\/strong> definitely goes to Ryan Gilbey, who is trying to “catch every second of The Clock”<\/p>\n Around The Clock<\/p>\n One man\u2019s attempt to catch every second of Christian Marclay\u2019s astonishing 24-hour film installation, The Clock.<\/p>\n It\u2019s 3.38 on a September morning. I\u2019m scuttling along my local high street in east London in the blue-black dark, surprise\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/wRNjGBqBZ1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Left Wing UK (@TheLeftWingUK) December 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Experiencing the passing of time<\/strong><\/p>\n
That\u2019s not just it, though. While time flows, you\u2019re taken from one story to another and yet another one. At the same time, the setting changes again and again. It almost gives you the idea of the world spinning around. As you sit there, an infinite combination of stories is taking place all around the globe. At that precise point in time. What you see is just a minimal portion of what is or could be happening. And you can actually feel it.\u00a0
Sitting in the darkness are tens of other viewers, and you\u2019re all experiencing the same moment. One moment after the other. Each one of the people looking at the big screen is carrying their own story with them. Suddenly, you can feel the presence of those stories. What\u2019s showing on the screen starts weighing less and less until it almost fades away. What really matters now is the chaotic, and yet beautiful, ensemble of faces lightened up by the movie\u2019s light. Little by little, the ensemble starts growing bigger and bigger – and the faces of people sharing that moment merge in the combination of stories taking place at each ticking of \u201cThe Clock.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/45207274_258344861542345_8311597909237825536_n.jpg\")
If you want to have an all-round experience of \u201cThe Clock,\u201d Tate Modern is offering a 24-hours screening next Sunday, November 3rd.<\/p>\n\n
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\nI can\u2019t recommend The Clock enough. Absolute genius. Want to go back every hour. @ Tate Modern https:\/\/t.co\/mHQQnDAHpV<\/a><\/p>\n\n