Christian Marclay’s The Clock has come to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  Over the next few weeks, I’m going to try and see as much of it as I can.

First session, First Fridays, November 4th: 9:41pm-12:07am

Suspensefulness

A choose-your-own-adventure

Almost wish you could hit “continue” for any given scene.

Something wonderful about the pattern-making and recognizing ability of the human mind to comfortably piece together any set of slices and accept the narrative.

Marclay’s brilliance, I think, most of all, is wrapped up in

I wonder how many other alternative clocks could have been created with all th

I lean over and ask Elise what she thinks the midnight finale will be.  I dunno she says.  I tell her I think it’ll be some sort of New Year’s thing.  In a few minutes, I’ll be wrong.

James Bond seems to be the hero of the evening.

Quite a few shots of Big Ben.

Donnie Darko in Marclay / Halloween

what you recognize in the marclay reflects your generation

Different generations will reverberate differently with this film

The clock