🏴"The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw."

Don DeLillo’s novella “Point Omega” opens and ends in a gallery in New York. The protagonist creep, who is hidden from view in some dark corner in the gallery, watches a film obsessively. He has returned to the gallery every day without fail. Although he watches the film, he also watches other people watching the film. When two academics from the nearby film school enter the gallery, he goes into a monologue about how, even though they have the correct language to talk about the film, they don’t see and feel the film the way he does. The academics leave after a short while, giving credence to the creep’s thesis that they are detached viewers, whereas he is a viewer that is touched, in more ways than one. The film, although not named, is Douglas Gordon’s “24 Hour Psycho” (1993). Gordon appropriated Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 “Psycho”, and slowed it down to approximately two frames a second, rather than the usual 24, resulting in the film lasting exactly 24 hours. 🏴

🎥Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho, 1993.