[HN Gopher] Killing Orson Welles at Midnight (2011)
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       Killing Orson Welles at Midnight (2011)
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-01-04 19:01 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/BHJGe
        
       | Aloha wrote:
       | Looks interesting.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)
        
         | bookofjoe wrote:
         | It's currently showing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
         | City, through February 17, 2025.
         | 
         | https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5746
         | 
         | From the museum website:
         | 
         | Encapsulating 100 years of moving-image history, Christian
         | Marclay's The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour montage composed from
         | thousands of film and television clips depicting clocks and
         | other references to time. James Bond checks his watch at 12:20
         | a.m.; Meryl Streep turns off an alarm clock at 6:30 a.m.; a
         | pocket watch ticks at 11:53 a.m. as the Titanic departs. With
         | each clip synchronized to the local time, The Clock collapses
         | the fictional time presented on screen with the actual time of
         | each passing minute. The work is both a cinematic tour-de-force
         | and a functioning timepiece.
         | 
         | Building on his background as a musician in Boston and New
         | York's underground scenes of the late 1970s and 1980s, Marclay
         | has for five decades combined visual and sonic fragments to
         | explore the complex relationships between image and sound. His
         | resulting works have taken form across a wide range of mediums:
         | sculpture, painting, photography, print, performance, and
         | video. With the help of assistants searching for footage,
         | Marclay spent three years meticulously editing The Clock--the
         | culmination of his innovative approach to looking at the world
         | anew through found material.
         | 
         | The Clock speaks to cinema's rich history as both a mirror of
         | and escape from reality, a paradox that is ever more central to
         | daily life in today's era of instant broadcast, streaming
         | services, and artificial intelligence. Marclay's assemblage of
         | carefully selected clips takes us on a journey through the past
         | in order to heighten our awareness of an ever-elusive and
         | unfolding present. By editing together fragments from cinema's
         | vast archive to tell the current time, Marclay reframes our
         | collective memory of movies as an uncanny confrontation with
         | ourselves.
         | 
         | Visitor guidelines: Due to limited seating capacity, entry to
         | The Clock is not guaranteed. MoMA members receive priority
         | access. Visitors may stay inside the exhibition as long as they
         | like during open hours, but must rejoin the queue if they exit
         | for any reason. Food and drink are not allowed, and we ask that
         | visitors refrain from talking or using cell phones. The use of
         | recording devices, including mobile phones, is strictly
         | prohibited.
        
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