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Split Screens in Conversations with Other Women: Reminiscence of Romance and Henri Bergson’s Concept of ‘Durée’

This paper examines the use of split screens in Hans Canosa'sConversations with Other Women (2005), which can be named asreminiscence of romance film, through Henri Bergson's concept of 'durée'. It is noticed that this film entirely uses split screen technique, whichHans Canosa wants to call as 'dual-frame', and tells a story about a briefencounter and one night stand of a couple, who had been in love withand married to each other a long time ago and enjoys now theirconversations and sex indulging in reminiscences with a complicatedfeeling and various emotions. I want to call this film 'reminiscence ofromance' that recalls the previous romance in a nostalgic mood in thepresent, in which the couple who had been in love with each other meetand experience again another romantic moment, or combines both. Andthen, I discussed, referring to Henri Bergson's philosophy about time as aquality in which the past can coexist and be combined with the present inthe form of durée pure, how this film parallels the past and the presentin split screens, how these two infiltrate into each other so as to lead tothe perception of romance with all kinds of emotions. In this process, split screen techniques of three kinds of scenes wereinvestigated: the memory of their first meeting scene, sex scene, andrecognizing their parting scenes. As a result, it is revealed that eventhough this film tells a simple event, with the usage of split screen, it makes us experience the time of durée which Bergson mentioned and seeks a film about 'romantic' instead of a romantic film.