48 War Movies (2019) is a single-channel video that collapses conflicts from the Civil War to Iraq into a horrifying aggregate spectacle of war. Dramatizations are collaged into almost indistinguishable narratives and presented through concentric rectangles, like a flickering conveyor belt of popular cultural content. The forty-eight war films play simultaneously and continuously, and the accompanying soundtrack generates an indecipherable cacophony of wartime sounds.
Christian Marclay
Director
Why We Fight: Prelude to War65%
Fires Were Started60%
Korengal66%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
The Hornet's Nest62%
The War Game76%
The War Below67%
Danny Boy67%
The Sinking of the Lusitania65%
The War on Democracy75%
For Sama82%
2000 Meters to Andriivka79%
The Battle of San Pietro61%
Ararat61%
Jacknife63%
A Midnight Clear65%
Devotion70%
Father Soldier Son65%
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil72%
Let There Be Light73%
