{"id":17677,"date":"2025-07-05T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17677"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:48:11","slug":"doors-2022-christian-marclay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17677","title":{"rendered":"Doors (2022, Christian Marclay)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We regret that we couldn&#8217;t stay for all 24 hours of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9273\">The Clock<\/a><\/em> in Minneapolis some years ago, so while in Boston it was easy to catch all 60 minutes of <em>Doors<\/em>, which plays on a loop with no beginning or end.  People from classic movies (with some modern-auteurist exceptions: <em>Phantom Thread<\/em>, <em>Lost Highway<\/em>) enter doors, then we cut to the opposite angle and they&#8217;ve transformed into somebody different.  I thought the cuts were going for maximum contrast (old person to young, man to woman, black\/white to color), and I thought he was purposely choosing cheapie Brit dramas so we&#8217;d never recognize a clip\/actor, but every time I thought I&#8217;d found a pattern he&#8217;d switch it up.  Very funny to me that it&#8217;s 95% G-rated harmless scenes (some light gunpoint threats) except for the two minutes a class of small children was being ushered in, then it switched to <em>Fire Walk With Me<\/em> \/ <em>Scream<\/em> horror, and the kids were ushered right back out.  We also saw Sara Cwynar&#8217;s <em>Alphabet<\/em> exhibit and her giant awesome mural in the lobby, where the desk people told me it&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;swinn-arr&#8221;. Katy watched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14835\">Rose Gold<\/a><\/em> with me when we got home, and felt eight minutes was long enough so she didn&#8217;t want to check out <em>Glass Life<\/em> afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We regret that we couldn&#8217;t stay for all 24 hours of The Clock in Minneapolis some years ago, so while in Boston it was easy to catch all 60 minutes of Doors, which plays on a loop with no beginning or end. People from classic movies (with some modern-auteurist exceptions: Phantom Thread, Lost Highway) enter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,1834,3408,2582],"class_list":["post-17677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-christian-marclay","tag-doors","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17690,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17677\/revisions\/17690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}