I ran across this cool music video from the band Plushgun using four iPhone screens to make one larger image, and was instantly reminded of the Polish video genius Zbigniew Rybczyński, who was doing things like this as early as the 1970s and 80s. →[More:]

I first saw Rybczyński's work at animation festivals, and late at night on PBS. A couple of fun ones:

My Window (1979)
Media (1980)

In the 80's he became fairly well-known for some of his music videos for folks like Yoko Ono and The Art of Noise.

In 1983, he won an Oscar for "Best Animated Short" with a piece called Tango. (Slightly NSFW.) When I watch it I still expect the people to bump into each other.

In 1987, he made a 26-minute, English-language bit called Steps, about a groups of tourists being taken on a tour given inside one of the most famous pieces of Russian cinema ever, the "Odessa Steps" sequence, from the film The Battleship Potemkin. It's a bit silly and drawn out, but very innovative and has some very striking images in it.

One clip I'd never seen before, and that I only ran across while searching for links for this post, is this video he made in 1987 or 1988 for John Lennon's Imagine. Very cool.