Watched for approximately 2 hours at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney - April 2012.
I didn't realize this was on Letterboxd, I have such fond memories of this exhibit.
I had no idea what it was when I walked into the darkened cinema room and sat down to the movie that had "already begun" (not knowing that it had been running for days continuously). As it played out I quickly figured that it was a clipshow of different movies, some I recognised, some I didn't.
Pretty soon after I started to notice that time was a recurring theme, as clocks and watches figured prominently in each clip: someone was running late, another waiting for a train, some syncing their watches for a bank heist, another looking at their watch waiting for someone to arrive. So I thought "oh it's commenting on how much of our life is about waiting or looking at time, or about how big of a thing time is on our lives?"
But I still remember the moment that it dawned on me: the time that was shown in each clip was not only synced with the clips that came before and after, but the piece as a whole was synced to the actual time we were watching it.
It's probably not a big deal to others, and if I'd known that's what it was when I walked in I'd have probably just thought it was neat and moved on. But there was something so exciting about not knowing and figuring it out as I watched "hey, that's the time now!"
Idk, maybe I'm dumb lol, but it kinda felt like the Magic of Cinema, y'know?
Watched for approximately 2 hours at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney - April 2012.
I didn't realize this was on Letterboxd, I have such fond memories of this exhibit.
I had no idea what it was when I walked into the darkened cinema room and sat down to the movie that had "already begun" (not knowing that it had been running for days continuously). As it played out I quickly figured that it was a clipshow of different movies, some I recognised, some I didn't.
Pretty soon after I started to notice that time was a recurring theme, as clocks and watches figured prominently in each clip: someone was running late, another waiting for a train, some syncing their watches for a bank heist, another looking at their watch waiting for someone to arrive. So I thought "oh it's commenting on how much of our life is about waiting or looking at time, or about how big of a thing time is on our lives?"
But I still remember the moment that it dawned on me: the time that was shown in each clip was not only synced with the clips that came before and after, but the piece as a whole was synced to the actual time we were watching it.
It's probably not a big deal to others, and if I'd known that's what it was when I walked in I'd have probably just thought it was neat and moved on. But there was something so exciting about not knowing and figuring it out as I watched "hey, that's the time now!"
Idk, maybe I'm dumb lol, but it kinda felt like the Magic of Cinema, y'know?
