[Frameworks] Films about the clock

Anthony Yanick ajyanick at buffalo.edu
Sat Oct 27 14:22:14 UTC 2018


Safety Last (1923) -- the famous Harold Lloyd hanging clock scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SRGKc9DbyM

Speed (1994) and all the "race against the clock" type films in general
Tony


On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 9:50 AM Beebe, Roger W. <beebe.77 at osu.edu> wrote:

> There’s a sequence in Jon Jost’s *Speaking Directly* where we are just
> forced to watch a stopwatch for several minutes that you should check out.
> My memory is that it’s fairly late in the film (all of which is worth
> watching).
>
> Best,
> Roger
>
> On Oct 27, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello frameworkers,
>
>
> I’m trying to write a short article in spanish about different notions of
> time concerning contemporary experimental film and video. Since the concept
> of “time related to cinema” is almost impossible to delimit I have decided
> to concentrate just about the clock.
>
>
> So, i’m searching films and videos where the clock is an important
> object/issue for the development of the piece. By now I have just found
> appropiation works as *60 Seconds* (2002) by Christoph Girardet and *The
> Clock* (2012) by Christian Marclay but i’m sure there are dozens.
>
>
> There’s a brilliant film by Chris Gallagher named *Time Being* (2009)
> that could also be useful to theorize some ideas but I need some more
> titles.
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Thank you all,
>
>
> Best,
>
> Albert
>
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