4. Untitled #125
7,200 minutes (124 miles of film)
Artist Josh Azzarella released this 120-hour-long film in 2011. In Untitled, Azzarella loops one entire scene from the movie The Wizard of Oz, and Azzarella claims he figured out that Dorothy’s time in Oz lasts 120 hours — 5 days exactly — so his film is stretched to that length. It’s not clear why the artist picked just one scene instead of distending the entire movie unless it’s a matter of copyright and intellectual property. The key word for fair use like Azzarella’s is “transformative,” meaning a new work based on an existing work is completely distinguishable and different from its source material.
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