"The Clock"

The clock in the boxoffice at the Mayan Theatre says 4:33 and that's the time that this "Save the Tiger" clip will be on the screen whenever a venue plays Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (2010). The film is 24 hours long, a delicious montage of film clips exploring time in the movies. 

 

LACMA booked the film for a July 22 to August 23 run in 2026, including two 24 hour screenings beginning at 7pm July 25 and also August 22. Otherwise you can only see the sections timed to regular museum hours. They commented: 

"Returning to Los Angeles for the first time since 2015, Christian Marclay’s 'The Clock' is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time, excerpted and edited together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized to local time wherever it is shown. The result marks the exact time for the viewer for 24 consecutive hours, weaving together Marclay’s interests in collage and found visual and aural artifacts with his roots in live performance."

The venue at LACMA is on the main floor of the Broad Pavilion and uses twenty sofas for seating. See the LACMA page about the booking. It's free for LACMA members.

See the pages about the Mayan Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site. Also see our Theatres in Movies post about "Save the Tiger."

 

There's a page about the film on Wikipedia. The Tate Modern has a page about their 2018 booking of "The Clock" and a trailer on YouTube.  

 

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