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Shitdisco - OK (YouTube) I'm pretty sure that Shitdisco is a terrible name for a band. But don't let that stop you from enjoying their superfun video. While not strictly a split-screen work, the clip plays with layers of imagery,......
Talking Heads - Sax and Violins (YouTube) Another one from Talking Heads. As David Byrne sings and slowly spins, various backgrounds appear - patterns and collages of images and colors. At the end, the different shots and backgrounds are co...
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life (YouTube) Clip from Talking Heads and the film True Stories. A video wall behind the stage shows the same background footage on all screens, and the music video cuts and zooms among the singers......
bunnyslope (Google Video) Reader Nathanael Hevelone sent me this short and sweet clip. Showing and hiding subframes along the way keep things lively. Check out the Boston Video Production Discussion Group where Hevelone keeps a vlog. Thanks...
Junior Boys - Like a Child (QuickTime, 52MB) [Domino Records] Junior Boys - Like a Child (Windows Media) [Domino Records] Junior Boys - Like a Child (Real) [Domino Records] Junior Boys - Like a Child (YouTube) Video for a Junior......
Spring is here in full, and I'm in the mood for... blogging. Reader Urs Hofer has kindly shared with me his split-screen filmography (PDF). It was a part of his master's thesis on split screens in feature-length films at the......
PRIME SERIES ident (A) (QuickTime) [NOZAP] PRIME SERIES ident (B) (QuickTime) [NOZAP] PRIME SERIES ident (C) (QuickTime) [NOZAP] PRIME SERIES ident (D) (QuickTime) [NOZAP] A set of idents for the PRIME SERIES channel. Or, a series of idents...
Haystack Rock (QuickTime) [Taylor Street Studio] A multi-frame record of a visit to Haystack Rock by Will Luers of Taylor Street Studio. Certain split-screen works have the flavor of an interactive version: the visual composition of the sub...
Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca (Google Video) Timothy Yue from Timothy Tap Dancing sent me a clip showcasing his tap dance interpretation of Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca. It's highly enjoyable, and it makes fitting use of the simple split screen te...
TobyMac - Gone (QuickTime) TobyMac - Gone (YouTube) Hello. I'm back after a monthlong break. This week, I'll catch up with reader recommendations in the order received. First up: TobyMac's video uses a split screen that comes and goes, the....
Timecode (Excerpt 1) (QuickTime) Timecode (Excerpt 2) (QuickTime) At long last! Possibly even more breathlessly awaited than my first post on a De Palma film, here is a post on Timecode. I imagine that Timecode is the first thing that......
Sisters (Excerpt) (QuickTime) Finally, a post on a Brian De Palma film. Sisters is one of many movies by a director famous for his use of split screens. Although they may not feel as striking as they might have in......
Magnum: Video (Flash Video) For your post-Oscar blues. Compiled by Magnum Photos whose site is currently showcasing pictures of several 2007 Oscar winners. Via kottke.org.......
Boards of Canada - Zoetrope (YouTube) Unofficial video by Jason Willford. I suppose image mirroring could be considered a kind of shortcut for making a split screen video.......
For the Damaged Right Eye (Google Video) Trippy stuff from avant-garde Japanese director Toshio Matsumoto. See more of Matsumoto's works. Thanks to jean poole.......
Tramvaje (Windows Media, 12MB) [Jan Peml] This is from a reader comment posted a while ago: Hallo, I just finish my bachelor theoretical work about split screen (sorry in Czech) but I toke some informations from this great sites. I´d......
Holosun - Homunculus (YouTube) Holosun - Homunculus (MySpace) Holosun - Homunculus (MPEG, 55MB) Reader Paul Parker sends in this video he directed for Holosun. A live performance is given a twist using floating subframes. Always nice to see...
Maracaibo Subtitulada (Part 1) (YouTube) Maracaibo Subtitulada (Part 2) (YouTube) Maracaibo Subtitulada (Part 3) (YouTube) A documentary about Maracaibo, the second largest city in Venezuela. The collage approach is borrowed from Michel Gon...
Jean-Francois Coen - La tour de pise (YouTube) Michel Gondry uses lettering found all over France to bring to image the lyrics of the song. Fun and elegant, but nowhere nearly as good as that other split-screen video by Gondry.......
Bela - Ticket for a Train (YouTube) Lovely video from Bela and director Gunnlaugur Lárusson, who says the clip consists of public domain footage from the Prelinger Archives. A particularly nice split-screen moment starts around the two minu...
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World (QuickTime) [DJ Shadow] DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World (YouTube) Single from DJ Shadow's classic album Endtroducing... Some mildly Hexstatic-like use of found footage to illustrate the sample...
Babylon Motorhome - Angustia (YouTube) Babylon Motorhome - Angustia (QuickTime) Video for Babylon Motorhome's ska version of a song by creole singer Simon Diaz. Made by Sebastián Miranda, part of Keloide and based in Venezuela. More info an...
Papillon d'Amour (YouTube) Papillon d'Amour (Excerpt) (QuickTime) Mesmerizing recontextualization of a scene from Rashomon by Nicolas Provost. From the project page: By subjecting fragments from the film ?Rashomon? by Akira Kurosawa to the ...
Noyce TM - Year 03 (YouTube) Reader Mark-Steffen Göwecke made this video for the band Noyce TM, mixing split screens with stop-motion visuals. Nice use of projections onto angled and uneven surfaces; the one onto the rock, coupled with the....
Fox 25 News Boston - Counter-Terrorism Center (QuickTime) We just survived a Lite-Brite scare here in Boston; you can check out Bostonist for coverage of the funny-if-it-weren't-so-sad story of how Boston was cowed by guerrilla advertising....
Cassius - Foxxy (YouTube) A 3x3 grid shows 9 separate and simultaneous scenes. The images have a gritty, '70s-cop-show feel to it, but maybe it's just the YouTube compression? The action unfurls slowly and ends without much of a bang,......
Pet Shop Boys - Before (YouTube) One of the few songs from latter-day PSB that I enjoy. The video plays with layers of colors and symbolic imagery along with footage of the band and backup singers. All very glossy if......
Norah Jones - Thinking About You (QuickTime) [Partizan USA] Norah Jones - Thinking About You (YouTube) Infinite-zoom video from director Ace Norton that transforms successive thought bubbles into continuous subframes. There is a familiar fe...
GMC - Sierra (1) (YouTube) GMC - Sierra (2) (YouTube) GMC - Sierra (3) (YouTube) A series of commercials in 2006 from GMC touting the "professional grade" of their Sierra line of trucks. Small, animated subframes float over the video......
Lucky Number Slevin (Chess scene excerpt) (QuickTime) Last night I watched Lucky Number Slevin, a clever puzzle of a dramedy involving mistaken identities and vengeful scheming. In this scene, two different moments in time are blurred into ...
Richi M - Popcorn (YouTube) A remake of Popcorn that doesn't add much beyond a trance beat. The video features split screens seemingly representing multiple camera views, contrasting overview with detail. And if you've always felt that what...
Asia - Only Time Will Tell (YouTube) Another blast from the past from Asia, featuring multiple TVs and a... gymnast. This song was a big hit for them, along with another single off the same album which featured a split-screen......
Film4 ident - 1 (YouTube) Film4 ident - 2 (YouTube) Following on the heels of BBC Four idents, these clips for Channel 4 Film also rely on a relatively subtle revelation of different images playing out in the subframes. Thanks......
Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me (QuickTime) [Smuggler] Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me (Google Video) Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me (YouTube) This Tetris-inspired video from Lady Sovereign was the first video by......
The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New (QuickTime, 30MB) [rcjohnso] The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New (Real) [4AD] The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New (YouTube) The Mountain Goats and Rian Johnson (director of Brick) team up for a......
Jay-Z - Show Me What You Got (YouTube) Hello, I'm back on Split Screen. To mark the occasion, here's another guy who has returned from temporary retirement. I think it's very fitting because, you know, I sorta think of myself......
Apple - iPod + iTunes - Rinôçérôse (QuickTime) [Apple] Apple has moved on with newer ads, but I'll always be fond of this one for its 3D / architectural album-cover madness. More of a collage or mosaic than a split......
EYES (YouTube) EYES (QuickTime) [Getty Images - The Big Idea] Koichiro Tsujikawa's EYES is an oldie-but-goldie from 2004's The Big Idea project by Getty Images. A beautiful, hypnotic piece built out of just two source movies (you can watch ...
3 Years 3 Minutes (High resolution, 60MB) (QuickTime) [3 Years 3 Minutes] 3 Years 3 Minutes (Low resolution, 27MB) (QuickTime) [3 Years 3 Minutes] 3 Years 3 Minutes is a short film composed entirely of 11896 photos taken by Felix......
Asia - Heat of the Moment (YouTube) To wrap up this week's triple threat of '80s music videos, I've chosen Asia's top 10 hit from 1982 off the self-titled album. The video relies on a simple grid with the images......
Asia - Heat of the Moment (YouTube) To wrap up this week's triple threat of '80s music videos, I've chosen Asia's top 10 hit from 1982 off the self-titled album. The video relies on a simple grid with the images......
Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (YouTube) Continuing this week's theme of '80s music videos, here is Oh Patti by Scritti Politti from their 1988 album Provision. It's minimal in one sense, with just the simplest of split screens. The visuals......
Culture Club - Miss Me Blind (YouTube) I've been spending a lot of time on YouTube lately, digging up music videos from the '80s that I had never seen before or could only recall vaguely. So this week I'm posting......
A Place to Stand (QuickTime) [Archives of Ontario] A Place to Stand (Windows Media) [Archives of Ontario] In a Beautiful Place to Stand Out in the Country (YouTube) Brought to you by the Archives of Ontario, this lovely clip features......
Can't Stop the Music - Opening title sequence (YouTube) A deliciously giddy clip from Can't Stop the Music, a 1980 film based around the Village People. YouTube submitter alexchatbot says: Steve Guttenberg, Olympic skater/plastic-surgery vi...
NFL - 2005 playoffs (Real) Produced for the playoffs leading to Super Bowl XL, this commercial was one of a series of split-screen ads for NFL; I remember seeing at least one more clip which contained different footage. The ad......
The Futureheads - Area (YouTube) The Futureheads - Area (Windows Media) [Contactmusic] The Futureheads - Area (Real) [Contactmusic] Side-scrolling split-screen action from The Futureheads, directed by Barnaby Roper. The steady pace of movin...
Here (For Shannon) (QuickTime) [29fragiledays] Duncan Speakman posts short video sketches on his vlog. In his own words: Most of the stuff I post here is documentary, not planned and staged, just captured. I film using a little digital stil...
Pretend (Clip 1) (QuickTime) Pretend (Clip 2) (QuickTime) Pretend by Julie Talen is a split-screen feature film, a rare instance for narrative films. It goes beyond the fixed quadrants of Timecode to employ a much wider variety of visual st...
Saint Etienne - Split Screen (MP3) Please pardon the lack of posts on Split Screen. I'd been busy with Asynchrony, a project that I wrapped up last week. And I was simply bad at multi-tasking during the past month -......
Asynchrony - Split (Head) (QuickTime) Asynchrony - Split (Blinds) (QuickTime) Asynchrony - Slide (Dance) (QuickTime) Asynchrony - Slide (Cup) (QuickTime) My latest project is Asynchrony. It's a set of four interactive sketches for the simul...
+/- - She's Got Your Eyes (QuickTime) [+/-] The video from +/- brings together three separate journeys in a city towards a common destination. There is very little interplay among the three subframes in terms of objects coming together or.....
Toyota - RAV4 - Cube - 1 (QuickTime) Commercial for the new Toyota RAV4, made by Dentsu Canada. A simple split screen is given a twist using an animated 3D transition effect. Thanks to Les......
Total - Entre Nous (MPEG) [La Maison] A promotional film for energy company Total and their 2005 campaign called Energy Doubled. The campaign's stated goal is to highlight Total's "dual commitment" to both "advancement of... oil and gas dis...
Ambulance LTD - Stay Where You Are (QuickTime) [Ambulance LTD (UK)] Ambulance LTD - Stay Where You Are (Windows Media) [Ambulance LTD (UK)] In this music video for NYC band Ambulance LTD, directed by Moh Azima, what starts off as......
Volte-face (QuickTime) [Reynald Drouhin] Volte-face represents one type of videomosaic: each frame of the video clip is composed of smaller images within a grid that come together to resemble a larger image. Here, two rotating faces and hea...
Interior (QuickTime) This is a short that I made in 2002. It explores the space in and around Lobby 7, located inside 77 Mass Ave, one of MIT's domed buildings. The music is by Lackluster, a very good IDM......
BBC Four Ident - Mountains/Sea (Real) [The TV Room] BBC Four Ident - Birds (Real) [The TV Room] BBC Four Ident - Pool (Real) [The TV Room] BBC Four Ident - Library (Real) [The TV Room] These are four recent......
Video-Freaker Video-Freaker (Mac screen saver) (ZIP) [knowuh] Former labmate Noah Paessel has made a split-screen video screen saver for Mac OS X. It takes your video files in a specified directory and creates a real-time video collage, usi...
click pic to play (small .mov file) Tourist website: http://listentothetourist.com/ More info on video: http://squigglebooth.com/2006/09/indian-giver/ Dual screen experiments.# ...