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‘Doors' Review: Christian Marclay's Portal to Perception

Brooklyn, N.Y. A hundred years ago or thereabouts, when I was a college art student, the undergraduates over at the cinema school hosted an annual showing of something called 'The Goody Reel.' That montage of clips of everything from forgotten B-movies to student-film outtakes was a festival of collegiate wit: a track-level shot of a train passing overhead, the screen going black, and the sound of a toilet flushing; a mouse being dangled over a meat grinder, a cut to a crank being turned, hamburger meat coming out, all to the tune of the theme song from 'The Mickey Mouse Club.' But it was actually nothing more than an absurdist anthology of the way movies themselves work: Shot A (say, a stagecoach proceeding at a gallop) followed by Shot B (bandits hiding behind rocks, putting on their masks) creates the expectation of Shot C (a holdup). We viewers fill in the blanks.