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Obsessively uses split-screen to create voyeuristic tension and simultaneous action, most notably in *Dressed to Kill* and *Sisters*.
Abel Ferrara USAEmploys split-screen to explore moral duality and fragmented consciousness, particularly in *Bad Lieutenant* and *The Funeral*.
Jean-Luc Godard Switzerland/FrancePioneer of split-screen as a modernist tool to disrupt narrative linearity and force simultaneous interpretation in films like *Numéro Deux*.