Clock Time summary

In this article, Rosalind E.Krauss pointed about the Christian Marclay and his one of his most latest artwork The Clock. The technical support is commercial sound film from which he has extrapolated that process into pure synchoronicity. This work is also a compilation of film clip.

The Clock a 24 hour running combination of film clips which while being projected relate to each exact time of day. In The Clock , we confront what must be called another of the underlying conditions of film-synch time. The clock synch-time joins viewer and screen in the manner of what the film scholars call interpellation. In attracts the audience and makes them thinking about the time and the space they are in, however by watching the work they also lose track of time by thinking about it. Marclay’s The Clock exploits the cutway as its “plot” unfolds through the sights of the dials displayed on clocks and watches.

The Clock by Marclay has some relationship with the real time. The Clock’s simultaneity, enacted by the synchronous gearing of reel time into real time. Marclay manages this by turning to suspense as the extended dilation of the now effect, transforming the reel time of film into the real time of waiting.