Multiple Screens

Film and video works shown across two or more screens or monitors, so that images play against each other in space and time.

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Splitting a moving image across several screens changes how it is watched: viewers move, compare and inevitably miss things. Abel Gance ended Napoléon (1927) with a triptych projected across three side-by-side screens, and Charles and Ray Eames filled seven large screens with Glimpses of the U.S.A. at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls (1966) ran two reels at once.

With video, artists began stacking monitors. Nam June Paik built towers and walls of television sets, and Beryl Korot's Dachau 1974 (1975) arranges four channels in rhythmic, woven sequences. Later installations make the room the composition. Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves (2010) spreads a story across nine screens, and Candice Breitz lines up fans or actors on separate monitors to form a chorus. Look for how the edit works between screens: whether images mirror, answer or interrupt one another.