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Time and its perception are central to David Claerbout’s artistic practice. Since the mid-1990s, he has been examining the lines between still and moving images, between analog and digital visuals—and he does so again in his latest video work, “The Close”.

“The Close” unites a reconstruction of amateur footage from circa 1920 with a digital 3D playback of these sequences. The 1920s were the time of so-called city symphonies, which marked the entry of the movie camera into daily life, showing the budding metropolises in gleefully experimental snippets. Conceived as a short emotional history of …