Christian Marclay Movies

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

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

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

Money (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene.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

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...

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

"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...

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...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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