Tick, Tock.

I was fortunate to visit the Tate Modern on the 12th November and even more fortunate to experience Christian Marclay's 'The Clock', 2010.

I hadn't read anything about it and decided to go in ignorant to what it was. I walked into what was a large cinema room, with rows of squared sofas all facing a large cinema screen in the dark.

On the Screen ( when I walked in) was a snippet of the famous scruffy detective Columbo questioning a suspect, which then panned to a clock on the wall, the next scene was another oldie and was followed by more snippets of movies and programmes with a scene of a clock in each one, tying them together.

It took me a while but I suddenly realised that the clock was the exact same time as mine and then the whole installation's point suddenely fell into place - I was experiencing the actual time in hundreds of well put together installations of film and television images. Apparently it had taken several years of rigorous, painstaking research by Marclay and his researchers to create a 24hour loop of thrillers, westerns and Science fiction all perfectly clipped together in real time. It was incredible and even though I sat there for 32 minutes I could have stayed there all day and night.

Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010