Videos As Clocks

I'm starting to get some ideas on how to do some artwork based on the In Sum concept. Yesterday I was thinking about making videos that would function like a clock: there would be 15-minute videos, 30-minute videos, hour-long videos, 24-hour videos, week-long videos, and month-long videos. But is that even possible? How many millions or billions of frames at 4K or 8K would that generate?

Everything is constrained by the durations inherent in the medium, unlike the flow of real-time. John Cage explored long-durational, or "non-durational" works, as did Marina Abramovic and Brian Eno. It has become a genre in itself.

A month clock video or animation would need to match solar time with the atomic clock and would need to be reliable. But video is so reliant on the contingencies of hardware, software, and power sources. (Perhaps AI would be useful in restarting the clock exactly where it was interrupted).

Video can't be like the Clock of the Long Now, which would run for 10,000 years. But a variation on that could be a month that is compressed in some way: a month sped up to an hour or a month sped up to a minute. But as it stands there's no way of making a video that's a month-long in one continuous take.

Blue Star Eclipse was a virtual eclipse slowed down to 30 minutes. An eclipse is a natural "short" when we want to be much longer. If they happened daily then they could function as a time marker.