Christian Marclay. The Clock

«From 5 March to 19 April, the Museu Coleção Berardo presents Christian Marclay's famous installation The Clock. Since this is a work that lasts 24 hours, continuous screenings will take place at the museum on 5, 7, 28 March and 18 April.

Continuous screenings:
5 March, from 10pm to 10pm the next day;
7 March, from 10am to 7pm the next day;
28 March, from 10am to 7pm the next day;
18 April, from 10am to 7pm the next day.

The museum will be open to the public, free of charge, for each presentation.
A partnership between Museu Coleção Berardo and Público.

"Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a cinematic experience in a museological space. This film is composed of a painstaking collage of movie excerpts from the history of cinema with the particularity that each sequence shows a timepiece at a certain point in the action. From wristwatches to wall clocks or even to times expressed in writing, the viewer is confronted with a time that is rigorously synchronised with the real time in which the film is being watched. This 24-hour montage shows the passing of time, minute by minute, and is ultimately revealed to be a perfect clock. On the other hand, each sequence constructs its own fictional time, which is suspended when the picture passes to a new excerpt that seems to continue the former one or create a relationship with it through careful editing in which actors, sets and soundtracks appear to be in dialogue. At times, this process results in a dizzying whirl that nonetheless always leads to another sequence in which the next time is shown. This roaming through fragments of different films postpones any resolution and infinitely diverges the narrative through real time, which is simultaneously presented as fictional time, for the duration of 24 hours." – Pedro Lapa, artistic director of Museu Coleção Berardo