Contemporary Art's play with cinematic time: Christian Marclay's The Clock and Douglas Gordon's 24 Hr Psycho

This piece (which played in New York over the summer) is a really interesting investigation of both new disjointed forms of cinematic spectatorship (re-cuts, mash-ups, supercuts) and the kinds of temporal issues that come up in Friedberg.  The whole film is 24 hours long and is projected in real time (i.e. if you go at midnight, all the scenes take place then, if you go at 8:10, all the clips mention 8:10, etc.).

More on the piece here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/apr/07/christian-marclay-the-clock




Douglas Gordon's piece is much harder (well, impossible) to sit and watch!  It has been in many galleries (I've seen it twice), but I've come across one screening that's particularly interesting to our class here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/tiff2010/2010/09/douglas-gordons-stunning-24-hour-psycho-update-screens-at-tiffs-lightbox.html