Video taking off 13x its usual first day

Joey Engelman explains the movie that doubles as a clock

Christian Marclay's day-long montage has viewers imagining livestreams and screensavers, while others remember catching hours of it in museums.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 115,769 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (9,077).

Movies You're Never Meant To Finish - Part 4

Five in the afternoon was easy: cinema has plenty of people leaving work. Five in the morning was another matter. That practical problem is one of the best details in Joey Engelman's look at Christian Marclay's The Clock, an artwork assembled to tell the actual time.

In "Movies You're Never Meant To Finish - Part 4", Engelman explains how scenes from movies and television, each showing or mentioning a time, become a day-long montage synchronized with the clock outside the screening room. A scene set at breakfast doesn't simply play whenever you press a button. You have to arrive at the corresponding local time to catch it.

The Short has drawn about 80,000 views in its first 12 hours, an unusually fast start for Engelman's film-and-TV clips and commentary channel. It follows his longer exploration of films that stretch the idea of sitting down and watching something through.

Here, the strange running time isn't just an endurance test. Engelman describes Marclay and his assistants spending years searching films for usable moments. The audience then supplies another choice: when to walk in and when to leave. As Engelman puts it, "It doesn't matter when you watch this movie, it always takes place right now."

That premise has sent the comments toward surprisingly practical ideas: a continuous livestream, a screensaver, even a round display that could serve as a household clock. Other viewers recall encounters with the artwork itself, including visits spread across different times of day in Sydney and London. One remembers seeing hours at Tate but not managing the all-nighter, a particularly fitting way to leave this movie unfinished.

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What viewers say

He needs to sell a round screen that just plays it on a loop. I'd use it as a real clock⏰
@AVFWTVSee it on YouTube
I saw several hours (11am-8pm) of it over two separate days at The Tate in London and loved every second. The time actually flew by. I didn't manage the all-nighter, unfortunately.
@delthorpe223See it on YouTube
When he says "it always take place right now" all i can think about is spaceballs when they are watching the movie
@aafkpuSee it on YouTube

6 more comments

I can’t believe a 24 hour movie exists and it’s just about 24 hour time.
@ElastedAlorianSee it on YouTube
why isn't there a website with a livestream of this yet?
@westuchiha15See it on YouTube
It’s brilliant! I watched it in Sydney Australia for about three two hour blocks at various times of day and night. It was brilliant!!
@duncanthompson957See it on YouTube
I wonder how much (if any) comes from Nick of Time. I loved how clocks featured so prominently in that film as the movie happened in real time.
@StrawhatOtakuDrewSee it on YouTube
i've seen the 3-5am spots not all but a lot
@DJ_MalfeanSee it on YouTube
I wish it would be publicly available,
it would be very cool to have it as a kind of screensaver,

and just let it play while you going on with your day, and come back some times be fascinated that the watch actually works and get back with your day
@robin_undercoverSee it on YouTube