I Just discovered that this piece of art (Masterpiece !) is considered as a movie otherwise I would have reviewed it sooner !
I submitted my feedback to the Tate Modern gallery in 2018 about the all-night viewing I attended... (from 09.20 pm to 11.10 am) of their "Installation" called The Clock and the existence of a different version.
To be direct, I couldn't see it in 2010 in London, despite a long queuing at the White Cube but was one of the few staying for twenty three and a half hours (*) in front of a screen at the Queen Elizabeth Hall less than two years later for a special screening.
(*) the doors opened half an hour late at 19.00 and they stopped the projection at 18.30.
This was a completely different The Clock than the one the Tate Modern Gallery jointly acquired with Le Centre Pompidou and the Israel Museum.
In the Queen Elizabeth Hall version, the eyes of the spectator were trying to find the clock in every clip and therefore impossible to fall asleep... It was like watching a time bomb that you had to defuse... Keeping you awake like a hardcore gamer in an interactive play. The videos were of very poor quality and the selected material... quite boring ! Mainly composed of TV clips (hours of Columbo. Mission Impossible and other US series), very limited in Seventh Art materials with an almost total denying of the International movie history (Mostly french with just a few photo-grams with Deneuve, Azema and Dussolier, a bit of german and nothing else !).
Impossible to fall asleep... I had to cover my face with a hat to rest my eyes between 05:00 and 07:00 am.
It was for completing this original viewing that I choose a night screening at the Tate Modern gallery for just a one go !
It took me less than the time to find a seat to realize that it was not the content I previously analysed, deciphered and enjoyed !
In the "Tate Version" a most sophisticated editing includes close-ups of isolated clocks, pieces of clockwork and other time measuring devices like sundials, clepsydra, sand timer plus a number of rapid successions of very short clips not involving any time display or dials... If you add up the smooth editing and the sound fading/continuity between clips instead of a rough audio switch... I felt asleep, every hour - at night time - between the quarter and the twenty past and woke up at ten or five to.
As it was a different 24 hour experience, I had to go back several times to cover a complete viewing of this brand new art play for me !
The Tate Modern version presents at least ten minutes of "non-English speaking movies" per hour (more than a half french but also German, Japanese, Indian...) and focuses more on actors (Michael Caine, Jean-Pierre Leaud...), movie series (all the James Bond films) and directors complete filmographies (Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman...).
"Bright colors"... "Remastered picture"... The Tate Modern version is the only one reviewed on Internet... interesting and relevant... just a long movie with the same percentage of the audience sleeping like they usually do when watching any Hollywood blockbuster... or a clock !
I submitted my feedback to the Tate Modern gallery in 2018 about the all-night viewing I attended... (from 09.20 pm to 11.10 am) of their "Installation" called The Clock and the existence of a different version.
To be direct, I couldn't see it in 2010 in London, despite a long queuing at the White Cube but was one of the few staying for twenty three and a half hours (*) in front of a screen at the Queen Elizabeth Hall less than two years later for a special screening.
(*) the doors opened half an hour late at 19.00 and they stopped the projection at 18.30.
This was a completely different The Clock than the one the Tate Modern Gallery jointly acquired with Le Centre Pompidou and the Israel Museum.
In the Queen Elizabeth Hall version, the eyes of the spectator were trying to find the clock in every clip and therefore impossible to fall asleep... It was like watching a time bomb that you had to defuse... Keeping you awake like a hardcore gamer in an interactive play. The videos were of very poor quality and the selected material... quite boring ! Mainly composed of TV clips (hours of Columbo. Mission Impossible and other US series), very limited in Seventh Art materials with an almost total denying of the International movie history (Mostly french with just a few photo-grams with Deneuve, Azema and Dussolier, a bit of german and nothing else !).
Impossible to fall asleep... I had to cover my face with a hat to rest my eyes between 05:00 and 07:00 am.
It was for completing this original viewing that I choose a night screening at the Tate Modern gallery for just a one go !
It took me less than the time to find a seat to realize that it was not the content I previously analysed, deciphered and enjoyed !
In the "Tate Version" a most sophisticated editing includes close-ups of isolated clocks, pieces of clockwork and other time measuring devices like sundials, clepsydra, sand timer plus a number of rapid successions of very short clips not involving any time display or dials... If you add up the smooth editing and the sound fading/continuity between clips instead of a rough audio switch... I felt asleep, every hour - at night time - between the quarter and the twenty past and woke up at ten or five to.
As it was a different 24 hour experience, I had to go back several times to cover a complete viewing of this brand new art play for me !
The Tate Modern version presents at least ten minutes of "non-English speaking movies" per hour (more than a half french but also German, Japanese, Indian...) and focuses more on actors (Michael Caine, Jean-Pierre Leaud...), movie series (all the James Bond films) and directors complete filmographies (Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman...).
"Bright colors"... "Remastered picture"... The Tate Modern version is the only one reviewed on Internet... interesting and relevant... just a long movie with the same percentage of the audience sleeping like they usually do when watching any Hollywood blockbuster... or a clock !