Christian Marclay _萃舍云集

Telephones

Single-channel video (color, b/w, sound)
7’30”
Edition：245/250
1995

Telephones (1995) is Marclay’s seven-minute video composed of clips taken from classic Hollywood films in which its actors including Barbara Stanwyck and Geena Davis are seen using a telephone. The narrative builds from a sequence of repetitive cuts showing dials, then salutations, and abbreviated conversations, before a series of unresolved or unsettled goodbyes. As the artist noted in a 1997 interview: “Absence is a void to be filled with one’s own stories …. Silence is the negative space that defines sound.” In Telephones, the viewer is left with an obscured narrative that invites reflection on linguistic communication as altered, unstable, or insufficient, in particular when filtered and abstracted through the telephone.

Telephones

Single-channel video (color, b/w, sound) 7’30” Edition：245/250 1995

Single-channel video (color, b/w, sound)
7’30”
Edition：245/250
1995