Even though I have seen many exhibitions lately with multiple-screen video installations, Omer Fast has a knack at putting them to good use. I thoroughly enjoyed his exhibition at the James Cohan Gallery. I sat for some time in each of the three separate rooms to watch 5,000 Feet is the Best, Continuity, and Spring. However, I was only able to watch Fast’s latest video installation Spring all the way through before the gallery closed. Fast integrates different perspectives on the same event and shows them together instead of showing different scenes on each of the screens. It’s a functional and cool narrative tool which makes his videos more engaging. What stood out to me is that by utilizing multiple screens and therefore multiple perspectives, Fast shows how there is not just one point of view of an event and thus there cannot be only one reality. In his video installation Spring, Fast captures the separate yet interwoven narratives of a teenager, a male prostitute, and a couple all coming together in the suburbs, which ultimately ends in violence. Spring reminded me of one of my favorite films, Crash (which won the Oscar for Best Picture). Similar to Spring, the film Crash tells the story of people with separate narratives colliding in interweaving stories of race, loss, and redemption. However, I believe if Crash was presented in the multiple-screen installation style of Fast, it would make the film even more captivating and powerful.