What's up with the Split-Screens in Gate?

What’s up with the Split-Screens in Gate?

Originally published April 2016

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This video took several retakes and a few rewrites to get right.
A lot of great literature in the /r/Gate subreddit on Gate's depiction of nationalism, so I didn't want to already tread on what I thought was heavily treaded territory
As always, consider these thoughts investigative, not prescriptive
I don't have a legit camera, so you just gotta make due with my messy desk taken by my cellphone - you should've seen the video clip BEFORE it was colour-corrected, oooh boy!
This show was really hard to edit for, because something was ALWAYS moving, so I had difficult holding frames as I usually do for anime to ensure that seamless transition

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Bordwell, David. "The Cinema of Eisenstein." Routledge, New York (2005). - Manovich, Lev. "The Language of New Media." The MIT Press, New York (2002).
Penney, Matthew. "Nationalism and Anti-Americanism in Japan.”
Manga Wars, Aso, Tamogami, and Progressive Alternative." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 7 (17), 2009. - "Review/discussion about: Gate: Jietai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri." BanjoTheBear, http://bit.ly/20b6utM
Suzuki, Shogo. "The rise of the Chinese 'Other' in Japan's construction of identity: Is China a focal point of Japanese nationalism?" The Pacific Review 28 (1), 2015: 95-116.
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- Lucky Star
Gate: Jieitai Kanochi Nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
Peter Greenaway's "The Cinema is Dead, Long Live the Cinema" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BluXxpF3OP4
StoryBrain's "The Alpha Factor" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPfy6X8mCok
Kevin Lee's "Transformers: The Premake" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD3K1eWXI54
"Unfriended" Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgj4GjqCFlY
Kogonada's "Malick // Fire & Water" - https://vimeo.com/64063304
Norman Jewison's 1968 "The Thomas Crown Affair - Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 "Apocalypse Now" - I used the redux version cause that's all I had