Clocks is an animated short film which offers an impression of the (working)-life of the 37-year-old composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin. An abstract introduction leads us into the halls, where the Multimediale Karlsruhe took place in November 1993. Elena Kats-Chernin was commissioned by the Zentrum fuer Kunst und Musik (ZKM) to compose Clocks for the Multimediale. Accompanied by her own music, we see Elena Kats-Chernin at work: composing, at the piano, in dialogue with Richard Toop (musicologist), Daryl Pratt (percussionist) and Elizabeth Burton (dancer). Sometimes the film leaves her and focuses on the music entirely by using abstract painting. The viewer becomes the listener.