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Perhaps the most extensive use of split screen was in Hans Canosa's 2005 film Conversations with Other Women.

Conversations juxtaposed shot and reverse shot of two actors in the same take, captured with two cameras, for the entire movie.

The film was designed to enlist the audience as perceptual editors, as they can choose to watch either character act and react in real time.

While the shot / reverse shot function of split screen comprises most of the running time of the film, the filmmakers also used split screen for other spatial, temporal and emotional effects.

Conversations split screen sometimes showed flashbacks of the recent or distant past juxtaposed with the present ; moments imagined or hoped by the characters juxtaposed with present reality ; present experience fractured into more than one emotion for a given line or action, showing an actor performing the same moment in different ways ; and present and near future actions juxtaposed to accelerate the narrative in temporal overlap.