Christian Marclay Movies

  • 2010
    The Clock

    The Clock

    The Clock

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    A 24-hour compendium of time-themed film clips, all synched to the time that appears on the clocks and watches within.

    The Clock
  • 2018
    All Together

    All Together

    All Together

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    "All Together" is part of an ensemble of five works made on the occasion of a collaboration with Snapchat, the photo and video sharing application. A...

    All Together
  • 2019
    48 War Movies

    48 War Movies

    48 War Movies

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    48 War Movies (2019) is a single-channel video that collapses conflicts from the Civil War to Iraq into a horrifying aggregate spectacle of war....

    48 War Movies
  • 1984
    Record Players

    Record Players

    Record Players

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    A group of assistants “play” vinyl records by hand, scratching, rubbing, breaking and finally crushing them with their feet.

    Record Players
  • 2019
    Subtitled

    Subtitled

    Subtitled

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    "Subtitled" is an exquisite corpse of fleeting slivers, with fragments of dialogue and closed captions flitting between glimpses of body parts, car...

    Subtitled
  • 2020
    Fire

    Fire

    Fire

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    Fire, 2020, is a video animation made from paper cutouts from comic book illustrations of fire. More than 1,500 photographs shown in rapid succession...

    Fire
  • 2022
    Doors

    Doors

    Doors

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    For ten years, Christian Marclay collected film excerpts featuring a door opening or closing. He edited these sequences so that we see the actors...

    Doors
  • 1986
    Perils

    Perils

    Perils

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    The condensed filmic work of Abigail Child, borrowing strategies from found footage, Appropriation Art, Language Poetry and experimental music,...

    Perils
  • 1995
    Telephones

    Telephones

    Telephones

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    Cleverly conceived and artfully edited, Christian Marclay's 7 1/2-minute video, Telephones, comprises a succession of brief film clips that creates a...

    Telephones
  • 1985
    Money

    Money

    Money

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    Money (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene. A manic collage film from the...

    Money
  • 2000
    Guitar Drag

    Guitar Drag

    Guitar Drag

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    For this video shot in Texas, Christian Marclay connected an electric guitar to an amplifier and dragged it behind a pick-up truck. The resulting...

    Guitar Drag
  • 1999
    Gestures

    Gestures

    Gestures

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    Gestures captures Christian Marclay's hand scratching, crossing out, and counteracting the speed of rotation of records placed on turntables. His...

    Gestures
  • 2000
    Record Player: Christian Marclay

    Record Player: Christian Marclay

    Record Player: Christian Marclay

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    Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the...

    Record Player: Christian Marclay
  • 2015
    Surround Sounds

    Surround Sounds

    Surround Sounds

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    "Surround Sounds" is a silent video installation in which animated onomatopoeia are projected onto four walls. Christian Marclay cut out the words...

    Surround Sounds
  • 2002
    Video Quartet

    Video Quartet

    Video Quartet

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    Video Quartet brings together more than 700 film clips linked by their focus on music or sound. The work consists of four synchronised videos which...

    Video Quartet
  • 2016
    Made to Be Destroyed

    Made to Be Destroyed

    Made to Be Destroyed

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    With MADE TO BE DESTROYED, Christian Marclay edits together a multitude of film clips in which artworks are destroyed. The minutia of the preliminary...

    Made to Be Destroyed
  • 1985
    Ghost (I Don't Live Today)

    Ghost (I Don't Live Today)

    Ghost (I Don't Live Today)

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    In this perfomance Christian Marclay straps a turntable with the Jimi Hendrix album Are You Experienced onto his body, spinning the record. The...

    Ghost (I Don't Live Today)
  • 1970
    Lids and Straws

    Lids and Straws

    Lids and Straws

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    Lids and Straws animates 60 photographs of discarded plastic straws to mimic the passing hand of a clock, one second for each image. Christian...

    Lids and Straws