Carrie (1976)
@multichannel
Sharing examples of split screen in various media and other projects that foreground the use of multiple audiovisual layers. Thanks to filmmaker Julie Talen for the term "multichannel" to describe such works. Maintained by @lossless.bsky.social.
Carrie (1976)
Broadcast - Papercuts
Queen (A Portrait of Madonna)
Work by Candice Breitz. "30-Channel Installation: 30 Hard Drives."
Narc
The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New
I diagrammed out 8 layers of video... We shot the 1st layer (of John's face on the tv screen sitting on the floor) then took that tape and played it back on my TV, and shot the 2nd layer... Basically we built it layer by layer, live...
- Rian Johnson
Enter the Dragon
Final battle scene among mirrors.
DJ Shadow - In/Flux (Live)
From the 2004 live album Live! In Tune and on Time.
Full playlist:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
Ocean's Thirteen
I think all three of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean films contain split screen scenes. Guardian reviewer Peter Bradshaw didn't enjoy them: "Sometimes we go to split-screen, and sometimes - whoa! - two of the frames are funkily showing the same thing. It is all quite meaningless." π
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains
Tame Impala - End of Summer
Echopraxia
Work by Fu Pok Yan. Another one that isn't a typical split-screen piece that plays with layers of imagery through the editing.
Sam Bisbee - You Are Here
New Order - Regret (Live 20230610 Porto)
The music video for Regret also features lovely split-screen work:
bsky.app/profile/mult...
Sideways
Industrious Clock
Work by Yugo Nakamura.
Live web version:
www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/clock
Sony - PSP
While the ad isn't strictly split screen, I enjoyed how the video plays with the frame by loosening it without breaking it. Featuring the song Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand.
My Bloody Valentine - Honey Power (Guitar Cover)
From Tremolo, released on this day 35 years ago, one of the best EPs of all time in my book.
Soylent Green (1973)
"Sequence editor Chuck Braverman, known for his flash-frame kinestasis montages/films, opens director Richard Fleischer's film adaptation of Soylent Green with images of the blossoming bourgeoisie."
Higher quality video:
www.artofthetitle.com/title/soylen...
Craven Faults - Yard Loup
BBC World Cup 1994 - Brazil vs Netherlands
"Before the match, the BBC used the opening credits from βDallasβ to create one of the greatest football intros of all time."
Letherette - D&T
Requiem for a Dream
The Conversation Machine
"Neuroscientists, psychologists, neurolinguists, and philosophers from 5 continents are broadcast in an assembly of 32 screens... videos, interviews, and orchestration by Taryn Simon... continually constructing and assimilating its own order and disorder."
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day - Manic Monday (Feat. Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles)
Wretch 32 x Avelino x AV Allure - Collage Basquiat
Asia - Heat of the Moment
War of the Worlds (2025)
LFO - LFO
The Dark Knight (2008)
Batman shows Lucius Fox his phone-based surveillance system where he can image the entirety of Gotham on a grid of small monitors.