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Isaac Julien

Cinema expanded across multiple screens.

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Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julien
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Ten Thousand Waves

2010

Nine screens connect a contemporary migrant tragedy to Chinese history, landscape and legend.

The five in one idea

Julien uses multi-screen cinema to make history spatial: viewers must turn, choose and connect what no single frame can contain.