Teri J. Edelstein
Teri J. Edelstein is former Deputy Director of The Art Institute of Chicago. Her publications include the book Art for All: British Posters for Transport (2010). In 2019 she organized Everyone’s Art Gallery: Posters of the London Underground for the Art Institute. She taught film at Yale University and the University of Chicago.
Running through The Clock like an untamed river is the presence of death. Indeed, death is a major focus in ten of the fourteen (!) films that occupy the one minute between 4:00 and 4:01 p.m. And it asserts its prominence throughout the hour, sometimes directly, and sometimes in disguise. At 4:05 p.m., and again at 4:32 p.m., an uneasy father attempts to placate his daughters with modest bribes of food and entertainment.
