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Depending on who you are, spending 24 hours watching a film at a museum either sounds like a dream come true or the manifestation of your deepest, darkest nightmares.
On December 21, you'll get an opportunity to find out which one it is, thanks to a MoMA screening of "The Clock," a 24-hour movie created by Swiss American artist Christian Marclay.
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"The Clock" is not just any film: It's a looped supercut of different scenes from various film and TV shows synced up to the time in the real world. That means that whatever time you're watching is also the time that it is in the movie—In other words, if it's 6am now, it'll be 6am in the movie, etcetera. For that reason, the scenes chosen are ones where clocks, watches and other markers of time are visible on screen.
"The Clock" has been playing at the MoMA on loop since February, but obviously, museum guests aren't allowed to stay for the whole thing since the museum is not normally open 24 hours. That's going to change on December 21, when MoMA will allow a small group of people to stay overnight in order to experience the full thing, from start to finish.
The museum will leave a concession stand with drinks and snacks open until midnight and admission to "The Clock" will continue until 5:30am. Only six copies of the film exist, per Gothamist, and five of those are owned by museums and galleries around the world.
This is the first time that MoMA has hosted a 24 hour screening of "The Clock" in 12 years. Tickets to this very unhinged event are included with the $30 price of admission. You can make your reservation to "The Clock" 24 hour screening here.