A cinematic experience by Douglas Gordon - in which the film D.O.A. is screened simultaneously on three screens beside one another, but at slightly different speeds. The films quickly fall out of synch with one another. Déjà-vu uses footage from D.O.A. 1949-50, a Hollywood thriller directed by Rudolph Mateé. The film has been transferred to video and is projected simultaneously on three parallel screens at normal speed as well as slightly faster and slightly slower - 25, 24 and 23 frames per second (left to right). This has the effect of making the three identical narratives diverge increasingly over time, and inducing in the viewer an experience similar to déjà-vu.
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
전쟁에서 무공을 세워 특별 휴가를 받은 두 병사의 이야기. 여자에 관해서는 완전 쑥맥인 클레어런스(프랑크 시나트라)와 그와는 정반대의 성향인 조셉(진 켈리). 조는 여자 친구를 만나러 가지만 달리 할게 없는 클레어렌스는 그를 졸졸 따라 다닌다. 여자 사귀는 방법을 묻기도 하고... 그러던 중 경찰에게 끌려가는 어린아이를 발견하는데 그 아이는 해병이 너무 좋아 군에 입대를 하고 조르고 겨우 달래어 집에 데려다 주다가 보호자인 이모를 만나게 된다. 그 아이의 이모는 배우 지망생이었고 클레어렌스는 그녀, 수잔을 좋아하게 된다. 조는 클레어런스와 수잔을 맺어주려 노력하지만 그녀는 조를 좋아한다. 어느덧 수잔에게 이끌리는 조, 하지만 클레어런스를 생각하고 선뜻 행동으로 옮기지 못한다.
