Telephones

Loading Trailer Videos...
  • HomePage

  • Overview

    Cleverly conceived and artfully edited, Christian Marclay's 7 1/2-minute video, Telephones, comprises a succession of brief film clips that creates a humorous narrative of its own in which the characters, in progression, dial, hear the phone ring, pick it up, converse, react, say goodbye and hang up. In doing so, they express a multitude of emotions--surprise, desire, anger, disbelief, excitement, boredom--ultimately leaving the impression that they are all part of one big conversation.

  • Release Date

    1995-03-15

  • Average

    0

  • Rating:

    0.0 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

  • Keywords

Similar Movies

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
71%

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat(fr)

1896-06-30

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Battlefield of the Space Saucers
65%

Battlefield of the Space Saucers(ja)

1975-07-26

Duke Freed is an alien who has escaped to Earth after his home planet was invaded by the armies of Great King Yarban. Five years have passed and now Yarban's daughter, Princess Teronna, is on a mission to find both Duke and his spaceship Grendizer by invading our planet with their fleet of flying saucers. The pilot movie of Grendizer. It is about Duke Fleed, a fugitive of the planet fleed, who was kicked out of his planet by the Armies of Vega. Fleed and the daughter of the king of Vega we in love before the war between their planets. The armies of Vega continue their fight with Duke Fleed.

Railway Station
47%

Railway Station(pl)

1980-01-01

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.

The Flying Man
56%

The Flying Man(en)

2013-07-08

A new superhero is coming, only this time it's on his terms. Will he still be considered a hero?

Filthy
0%

Filthy(en)

2003-05-31

When WMIA news reporter Dana Diamond goes in search of the ultimate story she gets more than she bargains for. On a riot-torn Halloween night (Devil's Night) Dana is lured into an old, decrepit house by Leonard, a sadistic transient, promising her real-life violence she can capture on camera. Inside, her worst nightmares are realized as she now becomes the ultimate story. Dana is kidnapped by Leonard's crazed, incentuous family; Fermentia, the matriarch, and Pussey, her daughter, who live in a house full of stinking, rotting, decades old-garbage. Will Dana survive the unrelenting attacks of her merciless tormentors? Find out in the savage, unflinching, tour-de-force "FILTHY"

4:13 do Katowic
62%

4:13 do Katowic(pl)

2011-10-18

At 4.13 a.m. Artur will step on board of a train in Wroclaw. At 6.02 he will kill a human being. At 6.51 he will get off the train in Katowice City and truly smile for the first time in two years.However, will everything go according to plan? Robert Wieckiewicz ( star of Oscar nominated 'In Darkness' and upcoming 'Walesa') plays a desperate father trying not cross the line between serving justice and revenge. First independent 3d short in Poland. '4:13' was designed as an experiment in stereoscopic cinematography.

Spiders on a Web
40%

Spiders on a Web(en)

1900-08-08

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the pioneers of the British film industry, G.A. Smith, this short film details spiders trapped in an enclosure, and despite the title, does not actually feature a web.

Rendezvous
73%

Rendezvous(fr)

1976-01-01

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

The Pit and the Pendulum
47%

The Pit and the Pendulum(en)

1913-07-09

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper
60%

The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper(en)

1908-04-20

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

Girls Taking Time Checks
56%

Girls Taking Time Checks(en)

1904-04-30

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works
38%

Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works(en)

1904-05-01

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tightening various parts with wrenches. On the right side, a few men appear to be testing the workings of what may be a turbine.

A Quick Shave and Brush Up
42%

A Quick Shave and Brush Up(en)

1900-08-01

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

Kali, the Little Vampire
63%

Kali, the Little Vampire(fr)

2012-11-01

This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.

A Place in the Sun
56%

A Place in the Sun(cs)

1960-11-21

Oscar nominated animated short film from Czechoslovakia, 1960. Two characters fight over their claim to a small sunny spot on a beach.

Roundhay Garden Scene
63%

Roundhay Garden Scene(en)

1888-10-14

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

The Infernal Cauldron
63%

The Infernal Cauldron(fr)

1903-08-01

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

Carmencita
52%

Carmencita(xx)

1894-03-14

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.

Israeli Intelligence
35%

Israeli Intelligence(he)

2007-01-01

Rami Haruvi, a daring Mossad Agent, is sent to rescue the abducted US ambassador held at the state of Sugyra. If Rami fails his mission, the annual mossad vacation at "Olga Resort" will be canceled. Due to the importance of the mission, Hayim, the Head of the Mossad decides to assign Rami a new agent to his mission - the daughter of a mythological Mossad agent named Shuki, a ladies' man and Rami's role model. The two are getting into trouble both in their mission and relationship. Are the Americans good? Are the terrorist bad? Yet none of it compares to the real important question: will Hayim get his longed annual vacation at the Olga Resort?

Binta and the Great Idea
58%

Binta and the Great Idea(fr)

2004-10-25

Binta, a little girl from Senegal, tells us about the everyday life in her village, the importance of education for the girls, and about her father's great idea to make the world a better place.