Now playing at Acmi, the world’s most popular piece of concept art, by Christian Marclay, inspires thoughts of cities, community and death
My mind is foggy and my eyes are bleary. The time is exactly 2.52am. I know this because Jack Nicholson is on the big screen in front of me, seated near an analogue clock with its hands pointed towards the camera, in a shot lifted from the 1972 drama The King of Marvin Gardens.
In the film I am watching – the visual artist Christian Marclay’s mosaical epic the Clock, which runs for a butt-flattening 24 hours and is the world’s most popular piece of concept art – the time on screen always matches the time in real life. Debuting in London in 2010, The Clock strings together some 12,000 short clips from thousands of film and TV scenes, almost all in some way referring to the time – via lines of dialogue for instance, or, more commonly, shots of clocks and watches.
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