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Split-screen relationship collapse is the kind of formal conceit that usually signals a thesis project trying too hard, but Okorie actually commits to the form—lets it breathe, doesn't wink at the audience about how clever she's being.

The split-screen format recalls a lineage from Godard through Holly Larocque's video work, but what matters here is how Okorie treats editing and negative space as emotional registers; the audiovisual structure becomes the argument itself, not decoration for one.

The decision to hold both figures in frame simultaneously rather than cutting between them means every micro-gesture of avoidance or connection registers twice, in counterpoint—it's a single structural choice that transforms what could be rote breakup footage into something that feels choreographed and true at once.